I find the camera quality/hardware quite unoptimised at every price point.
I knew that going in.
I find the NOTHING OS skin excellent.
I find the CMF1 excellent value for money (£169 for the 8/128 version)
Glyphs are cool and unusual as is the detachable back of the CMF1/2.
Updates and how the phone runs are quite decent.
We have a OP12 in the house and if I wanted better photos, I’d simply buy one of those again for £649 w/100W charger. Or a used iPhone.
I do like all of the community apps, like N Dailer and N Keyboard, etc…
I find the 3x periscope on the 3a pro crappy. My last phone from 2020 (Mi 10 Youth Edition) had four cameras including a 5x periscope for under £300 with an SD765. Kids broke it though. Xiaomi.eu support is great.
It’s really a mixed bag with NOTHING tbh