For small tablets I just got a Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3. It's very nice and small 8.8" tablet with stylus support. Very light too. And powerful processor. Software is a bit less polished compared to Samsung's OneUI tho

Mine is tab gen 3, I bought from an official Lenovo retailer (I believe its official Global ROM) for 1.8k which is a steal lol. So far I am not having app crashing issue, and also just received OTA update to Android 15. Lenovo's ZUI OS is good enough but not as polished as Samsung's One UI so you might get a few minor annoyance like "why cant I just have a third app up in split screen" but other times can, or why do I have to hold the top bar on floating windows to shrink/resize them. Small little stuff.

In terms of speed its very good. Sound is good as well. The screen is IPS but looks better than my Tab S8 (I actually don't really like how my S8 light bleed is more noticeable) . App crashing... So far my uses are multiple web browsers and Youtube on split screen + drawing apps with youtube and not really noticing that.

I also got the pen. I actually prefer this apple pencil-styled pen with cone nibs over S pen with those tiny nibs lol. It's fine for doodling.

I got this pen
https://shopee.com.my/Original-Lenovo-Stylu...3192.7594182152

It's the Y700 pen (one side button only)