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I absolutely despise it when people say "should have known better" when companies mess up. Not everyone is going to spend weeks researching obscure information before buying a phone.
Sounds like OP was aware the 5a had a known higher failure rate, ignored the reports and bought one anyway. Just doing a search for Pixel 5a comes up with results about motherboard failures. I've never seen that while searching for phones, so it must have been a significant issue with the 5a.
Someone looking for flashable phones is going to run into these results while choosing a device. I know everything about the phones I have - it's part of choosing a device.
I wouldn't buy a 5a knowing there's a higher-than-usual failure rate.
I should've known better when I flashed a phone and bricked it by not following proper procedure - I knew the risk and ignored it, like OP.
Uh, no. I had no idea that the phone had issues. You are the kind of person I'm alluding to in the post.