The hardware of Sony phones has been so attractive over years. I had the Z3 & XZ1 years ago and they were great.
However, the software is lacking. They don’t commit to long term OS/security updates.
The price is also far too high for just a slab.
This means that there are no ROMs that support recent flagship Sony devices.
Honestly they don’t have to lower the price. If they just opened up the software I would make the jump.
I’m holding onto the OnePlus 7 Pro for dear life because newer devices feel like such a compromise; great hardware and software is locked down to hinder ROM development or great ROM support and weak hardware.