LG launched the V40 about a year ago as a Galaxy Note 9 competitor. That sounds good on paper and the hardware does compete, but all of that falls apart when one realizes that a host of V40 users are still on Android Oreo, the same version of Android the device was released with.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/One-whole-year-after-launch-a-host-of-LG-V40-users-are-still-on-Android-Oreo.435144.0.html