I have never seen the appeal of this "smartphone" fad and have had a dumbphone all along. I think the article misses another reason for recent resurgence, whic

I have never seen the appeal of this "smartphone" fad and have had a dumbphone all along. I think the article misses another reason for recent resurgence, which is that the most recent generation of dumbphones are actually usable. There was a dark period from about 2012-2020 where the phones were simply terrible: bad hardware, bad software etc. My phone from 2005 was better than anything available during that period. (The problem was that the old great models couldn't be adapted to 4G networks, and nobody wanted to write new software for dumbphones.) Now there are some nice ones available again. I like the Sunbeam F1.