I have a Brittany. It’s a bit hard to disentangle what’s his breed and what’s his background (rescue, came to me at somewhere between 1 and 2 with likely no previous training, don’t know what might have happened to him), but he’s neurotic, obsessive, clingy, not especially food-orientated, hard to settle and has a massive prey drive (although never catches anything. Because he’s useless). His recall is awful despite weeks and weeks of recall classes because once he’s seen a pigeon, good luck getting him to pay attention to anything else. Has to go to ‘special’ obedience classes because if there’s too much going on around him he loses his mind.
On the other hand, he’s very affectionate (although still ridiculously mouthy 
), good with other dogs, not possessive, weirdly is absolutely fine with being home alone, easy to train IF you can get his attention (if he’s with you, he’s 100% with you. If not, you might as well give up and go home). He does chew, but he doesn’t eat the stuff he’s stolen. He’s also hilarious. And beautiful. And once he’s been sufficiently mentally and physically exercised will cuddle up on the sofa with you.
He’s my first dog. Probably someone with more experience would find him easier, but I think he’d still need a lot of input - he’s definitely a dog that needs a hobby (we do scentwork and agility plus he runs with me in the woods/fields/by the sea). I’d have another cos I looove him 
but sometimes I fantasise about having a lovely chilled out Labrador...