I am biased, as I've had every pro/xl but the Pixel6 and the google nexus phone's prior to that.
With that being said i've only had questionable build quality on 2 occasions. The Huawei 6p which was covered under a recall, and the Panda Pixel 2XL where there was some lamination issues.
That being said, the build quality and materials (mostly) really stepped up initially in the Pixel 4, and then noticeably again in the P7. They are quite nice. I don't really find them lacking in quality, fit, or finish these days.
I was under the impression that their double wide container rig would be at deck level and lashed down to the vessel; not stacked on top of other containers. This is the only way they could control the vertical height of the retracted sail for going under bridges, etc.
Change, sure. We've had browserify, parcel, rollup, webpack. Then the next wave hit with snowpack, esbuild, vite, lasso, turbopack etc.
There's a few that have hung around like rollup and webpack, but there's definitely a constant feel of chasing the dragon when it comes to js bundlers/builds, if not JS tooling as a whole.
It is especially nice combined with mkdocs and the mermaid plugin when doing documentation.