So I'm on my third Pixel 2. The touch is pretty good on this one. One thing I noticed different about this one was that it came with the February update on it, the first two had September on 8.0. After looking up the manufacturing date on all three the first two were built in Taiwan back in mid September of 2017. The third one was built in a different factory in Taiwan and was built a few weeks ago in February. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions but as someone who works with several manufacturing facilities myself for work, I can tell you early runs always are working out any kinks and you will generally get different levels of quality depending on who builds it and when. Its been true of cars for decades. You don't want one built on Monday or Friday. Again, there were no visible differences but there must be something to it.
That said. I have 12 days left in my return window and I'm still on the fence about keeping this thing. I just don't love the hardware. I pulled out my LG G6 this morning and while the software isn't as clean, it just feels better. I can't explain it, but there's something to be said for liking the hardware to, no matter how good the software is. I really don't know. The few pictures I've taken haven't blown me away either so that's not swaying me so far. I'm not trying to bash the Pixel 2 but, I'm just not sure the value is there for what I spent.