I have one of the Moto Edges, can’t say I have many complaints outside of the slow charging and a dead pixel that developed a year in.
The edges didn’t bother me as much as I thought it would, I can even use it as trigger to play Citra games which I couldn’t do with a flat phone so that was nifty. Clean software, long battery life, but terrible update schedule though.
In Italy #megliomotog (“Moto G is better”) became a meme among tech enthusiasts because of its quality-price ratio.
They kind of lost when they split the X lineup in X Play e X Style (those horrid Snapdragon 615 and 808 didn’t help either).