Motorola is Chinese they are owned by Lenovo

Pretty much all high end phones outside of Sony have omitted the headphone jack and SD card slot.

Samsung low end phone and low end phones in general still have it for example the galaxy a54 has it.

The reason why is they want you to spend more on storage upgrades.

The 8gen1 could also work.

I miss LG

The Snapdragon 810, or 808 would have been a better choice. They were space heaters on every phone they put in.

Luckily for you the pixel 8 is rumored to be around the same size as the pixel 6a, smaller than the pixel 7.