Pretty much the only reason I didn't get a pixel when I recently bought a new phone.

Normally, I'd agree with you. Samsung does put some stupid bloatware apps that you have to disable (which I understand is not the same as uninstalling). But in this case I think that Samsung's quick settings are better than stock which looks like this. The amount of space wasted there is insane.

I used to hate Samsung's previous design, but OneUI isn't that bad and ads some genuinely better things than stock Android. That being said, I do miss some of the simplicity of stock, plus the genuine speed/responsiveness that it brings.

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I like and use a lot of the added features and my phone is plenty fast enough to handle them. I don't see the problem with this so called bloatware.

From someone that actually used recent versions of iOS, this looks nothing like iOS, not even close.

Is there a way to get square icons even with GoodLock? I remember trying and giving up at some point since i couldnt figure out the simplest shape of them all.

Can't remember last time they released new android version on a flagship without breaking either performance or battery life

That's actually quite normal for most in-place OS upgrades, and isn't specific to Samsung or even Android.

As an old PC nerd, the rule-of-thumb still stands true today: always do a fresh install when doing a major OS upgrade, it'll save you from much agony down the line.

I enabled predictive back gestures on my S23u via the Dev options, however it only works kinda on the play store