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Pretty much how I feel about this as well. My phone usage patterns haven't changed in years. There are a handful of apps, such as email, calendar, and a music player that I use day to day. The way these apps work hasn't really changed over the years. What I find frustrating that even though hardware keeps getting faster, software manages to make up for that by getting ever more bloated. Imagine if we didn't have phone released every years, but in stead focused on optimizing software so it runs better. I bet you could get a ton of performance out of older devices that way.
Not just phones imo, modern computing devices are unnecessarily powerful. Like modern work laptops with 11th gen i5s. They should be able to handle word processing. Computers with a 300mhz CPU can write to text files. But windows still manages to chug with a few office apps open. How they manage to cram that much bloat in astounds me
Completely agree, there's just an incredible amount of software bloat nowadays that adds pretty much nothing of any real value for the user. I recently put Linux on an old 2015 macbook I have and it was shocking to see just how snappy it is compared to macos.