They do increases cost and failure rate, but not nearly enough to be an excuse for not having buttons. Nokia makes incredibly cheap and incredibly durable phon

They do increases cost and failure rate, but not nearly enough to be an excuse for not having buttons. Nokia makes incredibly cheap and incredibly durable phones with T9 and qwerty keypads. If I bought one, the 3G network it is designed for would be farmed for 5G before the keypad itself stopped working...