I've actually been pretty busy IRL recently, and my schedule on this has really been slipping, so, probably no more big writeups until things slow down. I'll probably move the discussion to a biweekly schedule, but no promises.
Not that much experience with Asus phone on my part, I know they use to use Intel processors until they suddenly stopped.
The new Zenfone 10 looks nice, and the ROG Phones are a bit overkill, but still very interesting spec wise.
I don't mind the lack of an unlockable bootloader, and I'm a happy customer. I've used my Zenfone 10 for about 3 months, will continue to use for at least 5 years.