> Good luck finding a case that offers non-trivial protection.
They exist, but the phone is already big enough.
> You likely cant walk into your carrier's store and buy one which means you have to buy it directly from Google and without an upgrade 'subsidy'.
That's million times a "pro" and not a "con" to me. Main reason I ditched Verizon was their locked down subsidized phones.
> If you want more than a paltry 16GiB of internal storage you'll be paying out the nose for it
Nexus 6p starts at 32GB, there is no 16GB version. Also, it's only $50 more for 64GB. Only Nexus phone to have an sdcard was the Nexus One (which really really needed it with 500GB internal storage).
> The battery isn't removable or user replaceable.
I don't like that either, but sadly most phones have gone to doing this, especially higher end ones.
> Since you bought the phone from Google you get to deal with Google's legendary customer support.
I called them once (yes, you can call them for phone issues) and they were native English speakers. Overall, they were quite easy to deal with.
Motorola on the other hand was horrible to deal with and outsources their call centers. Would never buy another Moto phone again after dealing with their broken customer service (this was after the acquisition by Lenovo). Moto's customer service lied to me and told me my phone was shipped when it hadn't even left the warehouse yet. That was just small issue to some others I had with Moto though.
> Rooting the phone is trivial but requires a complete wipe of the device
That's a security feature and a good thing. Always been that way with all Nexus phones or any phone that allows root without an exploit (exploits that can be used maliciously as well).
> disables the use of Android Pay
Yeah, Android pay won't work unfortunately with a rooted device. There's a hacky workaround for it, but it's a pain in the ass to do on every purchase: http://www.xda-developers.com/android-pay-no-longer-working-...
