Well, first I would like to adress the elephant in the room. Samsung/Google Pixel is not in it’s entirety Android. There are lots of other brands out there, each and every one of them offers different things to different people who ask for different features.
About what you’re asking for, can’t actually help with group chats (the US has a culturally attachment to iMessage, which is locked down to iOS), but for iCloud well, you can have your stuff in google drive, or on a offline drive (most of modern android have otg capabilities), or even selfhosted if that’s your kind of thing.
Seriously, give it a try and see for yourself how mature now is the OS and ofc see if you’re staying ;)
What was your first reaction to the massive exodus from Reddit during the blackout? Was it something you were expecting?
Got around 300+ hours into Borderlands 2 and around 600+ into Warframe
For the unwillingly people who don’t/can’t move to a more privacy friendly browser, Cromite (a fork of Bromite, both chromium based browsers) do allow bottom toolbar