I guess the disagreement here is coming from how we define a “clean” experience. Based on my recent use of phones from both manufacturers, the Motorola phone allowed me to disable and uninstall more stuff without breaking the core UX, hence it was a cleaner experience. Motorola doesn’t really impose itself on the user, in that sense.

Alternatively Pixels are really designed to be used by people fully integrated within Google’s ecosystem. When you start attempting to escape that it becomes a pretty annoying experience and one that I would not define as “clean”. It’s increasingly akin to using a Samsung phone with OneUI, which is similarly insistent on you using all it’s baked-in, exclusive first-party features (many of which requite an account or enable additional tracking).