I feel like a boomer in my 20s with the fact that I fucking despise having to pay 30-40 dollars a month just so some guy from work can reach me and tell me I need to work extra hours. Everything and everyone else I can contact online using my work's PC or my personal laptop. It's also dogshit-garbage because it's getting to the point where most services entirely give up on their desktop/browser ports or websites because they just assume people are going to use their phone.
Instagram was like this for a long while. Indeed recently removed their "distance" feature and other filter features from their desktop version. Reddit is another example. Enshittification of the internet to put it all on a phone is awful.
My refurb pixel 7 was like 200 USD which isn't too bad for me, but that's the old Imperial Core Privelege at work. Ofc I'm not sure what the situation is in your country. I would never buy a phone new these days anyway. Not worth the price
my country has this culture where new is good, but also old is good. my family used to buy second hand but "new is always better and will work unlike second hand" smh