You are willing to spend money on the best. I can nto believe that you evaluated the difference between best and second best and decided the best was sufficient

You are willing to spend money on the best. I can nto believe that you evaluated the difference between best and second best and decided the best was sufficiently better to justify spending 10$ a month on. You wanted the best and it wasn't to expensive for you. It might not be a status symbol in the sense that you want others to know you're rich, but it's really hard to justify spending more than 500$ max on a phone these days unless you want something essentially useless (like it being "the best" in some measure). My Nexus 5x is a few years old by now, but it's still hard to see the utility of upgrading it to something flashier for me.