Fair enough, but disasters still happen. Someone in my family dropped a fairly late model iphone into a lake. They did recover it the next day, but by then it

Fair enough, but disasters still happen. Someone in my family dropped a fairly late model iphone into a lake. They did recover it the next day, but by then it had leaked, i.e. it was deeper than the pressure it was waterproofed for. A friend had hers snatched by thieves. Gone in an instant. I don't in general need the power (or camera) of an expensive phone (except for the app mentioned). And I'd rather have a recent, lower-end one than an older higher-end one, having been burned a few times by apps "not compatible with your device" due to the OS being too old, admittedly only on older iDevices that the kids play with or truly ancient Android tablets. Oh, and two iPhone 7 vintage devices that were given to us as kids' playthings a few years ago (both with forgotten activation locks, so useless) were absolutely thrashed. They are tough but not infinitely so.