Well for me it’s almost the opposite you’d have to lay down a solid salary to get me to use an iPhone as my daily phone so there seems to be some fundamental philosophical differences.
And flagship Samsung looses like 40-60% price in 18months even though nowadays they are fine for 5+years.
Jup a phone, which is a computer, which can’t easily run arbitrary software just shouldn’t exist, and if it has to I don’t want to use it.
These days you don’t even need custom firmware or root to do most things (except debloat/degoogle). Which I probably should degoogle but it’s a project for a later day (a day where a home server + reasonable backups are already setup)