It’s been flaky with my Pixel 6 from day 1. Sometimes it won’t connect at all. Other times it will drop connection in the middle of a drive. The latest annoyance is that about half the time when I plug it in the phone goes to USB Tethering instead AA and I have to change it.
“I have no worries about those 18”
So 18 is ok but 17 isn’t? On one’s 18th birthday one is magically transported into a vast maturity they didn’t have the day before? I know some 17-year-olds with vastly greater maturity and perspective than half the “adults” in the US!