I've had a lot of smartphones & especially with kids they wear out/break before their CPUs become obsolete. My last iPhone was the old SE and I had to replace

I've had a lot of smartphones & especially with kids they wear out/break before their CPUs become obsolete. My last iPhone was the old SE and I had to replace it after it got so bent/broken after 2 years that it could no longer be reasonably repaired. These phones (android or iOS) tend to last ~2-3 years at our household (2 adults & 2 kids, kids don't have their own phones). I now have a Google pixel 3a I bought at a sale for €300 & it doesn't feel any less quality-wise than my old iPhone did. And unlike the old SE I don't have to suffer the too small screen (I got the SE cuz it was the cheapest iPhone at the time but 4" was really too small for comfort).