Bump! From what I found- the only real hardware difference between Mi5s and Pixel is the lack of hardware buttons, and the fingerprint scanner (the first one is easily changable and the latter I could live without) so theoritically it should be possible to even just flash the Pixel rom on Xiaomi by just modyfying the device id to allow for the installation. At least that's how me- a noob sees it, if I'm wrong please correct me, and I hope that someone somewhere in the near future ports the Pixel rom to our cheaper alternative

I could just use a custom rom, but I don't want to sacrofice things like camera features and rom stability, not on this phone (my Mi3 served me well for 2 years with every stupid software thing I did to it, but gave up when faced the mother nature)