Hell no not a troll post, great post!
I love my Note 8. I've shot underwater videos a few times with it and will do more as I clean the fish pond through stages
I use it for all videos and pictures and it is fast, pretty good quality, and i'm not having a space issue yet with no SD.
It charges fast, esp when in a bind (low end charges real fast), and a first for me - I can actually SEE and use it outside in the sun!
My only complaints are probably fixable - the bixby button should be map-able to a plethora of actions to choose from, Bixby should be completely disable-able in all regards. The edges of the screen are too sensitive. I would like to be able to disable touch on edges and just have it display.
Power saving mode is incredible, if ONLY you could use hangouts on it, I would be set.
I do miss the way the gallery on the n4 worked especially for cleanup, going through and deleting pictures. For example on this phone you must open a picture, view, back out, to select or view full screen. On n4 I could open full screen image and select or deselect from there, and scroll left and right with as swipe.
Now it's a PITA to look at a group of similar pics to choose the best couple to say.
But ,all that say, I love it, best phone I've ever had hands down.