It was a terrible experience, every software update broke an important feature, without exception. For example, once, casting was broken for 2-3 months. The Zenfone 8 also had issues with the phone randomly bricking itself with no way to recover (hardware defect that affected the batches from 2021-04 to 2021-05) without ever issuing a statement or recall, they just did warranty replacements. Then there's the phone itself, it's okay I guess, but the cameras kinda suck and the display is calibrated like shit with various color shifts when changing the brightness and refresh rate modes. Also back to the software, you get 2 years, and during that second year, you get an update every 2 months. And not to forget that their oem app quality is dogshit and looks and feels like they are from 2015.

So basically the Zenfone's only selling point/reason to get one was the small size from the 8 to 10. But now they've essentially gotten rid of it, so you're left with a generic phone that has shit updates, shit customer support, potentially shit hardware, shit software quality, and that can no longer be bootloader unlocked, even though they promised multiple times that bootloader unlock was coming back soon™️ (they said that in 2023)

Never again, Asus