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Bold of you to assume it'll last that long. Designed to break before you can save up enough for the next one.
Always in debt... Something something company store...
Yep. I'd love to keep a phone for more than 7 years - I consider myself pretty handy with electronics repair, but they're built so deliberately obtusely that you frequently just can't. Parts are often just not available, and even when they are, it involves gambling on buying a part that's like 1/3 the cost of a new phone.
It's more so that a majority of apps will straight stop working on older models. I bought a new iPad for a grand parent because their healthcare app stopped supporting the old one and they were struggling to use it through a browser.
Well, given I LineageOS all my devices, this one actually isn't an issue for me.