Why are there no good tablets at the moment?

A friend was looking for a new tablet, and they asked me for a recommendation. And… I just don’t have one. The only good tablet, because Android can be replaced with GrapheneOS, was the Google Pixel Tablet, and that is no longer available. Secondhand prices are sky high. That was my go-to recommendation for a while. Perhaps there will be a new one soon? Amazon’s range of FireOS tablets are, IMHO, bloated with crapware which one cannot easily remove. Even the Fire-Tools scripts only get one so far. I can’t recommend one. There are some fun-looking “tablet computers”, but they are all expensive. A secondhand Surface Go, if one wants a Linux-based tablet, is readily available and pretty cheap, but honestly not what most people will want. And, while I like it as a cheap, touchscreen, Linux machine, it is not particularly powerful, which can be frustrating. And getting the camera working is a nuisance. I guess that there are some iPads, if one is accepting of Apple / iOS. Again, that…