Who I have the same questioned this topic

I have been a Verizon user for a long time. The last phone I bought from them was a Motorola G7 Power 2021. It was a poor choice as a phone when I had great success with previous Motorola G Power phones.  I had not even had it a complete year and had a lot of issues I couldn't deal with like searching in Google searches always cutting me off midsentence and the search completely disappearing over and over. Taking me beyond several tries to just search for ONE thing. Camera was really laggy on opening and taking pictures. Just to name a few. I did a lot of research and decided I wanted to buy out the phone early and replace it with the new Motorola Edge Plus 2023. But of course Verizon doesn't offer it. I had to buy it outright from Motorola with Affirm payments. I researched a long time before getting another phone and I read so many BAD reviews of the phones that Verizon offered, not a lot of highly recommended phones.  For what you pay for Verizon's service they should have a better selection of phones. Even higher end phones had a lot of issues. Deal breaker kind of issues. Anyway, I wish I hadn't had to buy this phone outright but I absolutely LOVE it. Such a relief over owning the previous phone and it's a great contender to the Samsung Ultra S23, which my gf just upgraded to and already has a crack in the screen and she hasn't dropped it or even taken it out of the house yet. And apparently it's a common problem already with the S23's. I hope they change their mind and offer the Edge Plus 2023 in the future. My dad is due for an upgrade and I think he would really like this phone. Do better Verizon.