Thank you for your corroboration on this I couldn't find much reports online about the shutter lag on pixel 8 series so I thought it was just my device.
I had the pixel 7 pro and I can tell you that shutter lag was non existent on it. It was great using it to capture moving subjects and I missed it dearly when I switched to S23U. That's a big reason why I switched back to pixel 8 pro also.
In the beginning still ok but now it's getting worse, it still captures moving subjects better than the S23U did, post processing, but it is nowhere close to the near instant capture of images on the P7P.
On the P8P I can see that the captured image is a bit blurry pre-processing, and sharpened post processing by the software.
I think it's software issue lah, but that's funny because software is where pixel is supposed to shine.
I don't want to switch to S24U lah because I don't like OneUI, but sian leh with all these bugs recently.
Edit: Inb4 sell sell sell.