at-kiran Other competitor brands in this exact price bracket are delivering much better overall value and more dependable software support.
100% not true (the bold part).
at-kiran While Nothing is stuck on a bimonthly schedule, others are pushing out reliable monthly security patches
And those others are? How do they push security patches (which are irrelevant and not really important) faster than Google is even able to create them? Because Pixels, on average, are getting security patches every 4 weeks: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en
Xiaomi is pushing those security updates every 90 days (so three months), even for their most expensive flagships: https://trust.mi.com/misrc/updates/phone
Samsung every month ONLY for their CURRENT flagships, everything else is much slower, even every four months: https://security.samsungmobile.com/workScope.smsb
Their whole A series is on a quarterly basis, so every four months:

Including their M series:

OnePlus is every two months, so bimonthly like Nothing: https://www.oneplus.com/uk/psti
Except Google, obviously, there is absolutely not a single other non-meme brand that is pushing updates to their non-flagship phones more frequently than Nothing. Updates every few days for the sake of updating because of having an update fetish - are really not needed, trust me.