oh man your experience is so different from mine 😂

any phone i drop brings it a little closer to being completely non functional as long as it's not in a case.

but i do agree with you about one thing: it is all about aesthetic. there's tons of phones out there made with less shatterproof/scratch resistant glass, or think enough outer shells to protect their innards because when you buy a phone in a store you find the slim ones sexier

there's no preventing us from having thinner cases and thicker phones for such scenarios (and is probably the route i'd want to take, too, since i'm extra clumsy)

dropping them accidentally occasionally.

Ehhh the one phone I didn't put a case on happened to be the one phone I broke a screen on. Maybe it's just pure chance, but I started doing cases and screen protectors again after that

You've never damaged a phone ? You would be in the minority I think.

oh! so we're clear i'm not advocating against repairability. we absolutely must have that. but i'm tired of how easy it is to destroy an unfixable phone. we should have repairable phones that are designed to have long service intervals

A friend got one. A few months in it works flawlessly. It even has a projector built in!

It really is a tank.

It's Chinese. Will it spy on you? Maybe, but so does Google, maybe the govt, the meta app has been proven to listen even when supposedly not active.

Maybe the least invasive option is Pixel with graphene.

I use a Xiaomi, fwiw.

There's a pro version and the king kong mini 3 too, both more recent.

There's a mini 3 but it's taller so not as small