My grandparents got iPhones (during COVID) because they were supposed to be easy.
Wow, that's just the marketing.
The jargon was outside their understanding, and unless we were physically looking at the phone, we couldn't guess what word in the Appstore meant Download.
And it got worse, the requests/requirement to login with Apple ID on various occasions were frustrating.
And from a tech geek, I had a work IPhone where I struggled to change settings and found annoyances with bugs.
I think the most important reason to reduce consumption is due to everything being carefully curated.
Actual issues from a particular fruit company like the butterfly keyboard was cause of getting flagged, you weren't allowed to talk about it. Similar problems happen to this day.
In 5 years there will be 1nm transistors. If you skip this generation, you might as well wait another year to get high end stuff and you won't have to deal with Apple's less than friendly practices.
The only way I can see that being possible is if you got a stock option and survived long enough for it to vest.
But that's extremely high risk to take a 30-50k pay cut and move from highly affordable Michigan to Cali. All to bet it on stocks.
Source- 2017 recruiter was offering 80k, I was making 120k(40hr/week). Bonus points for the recruiter harassing me multiple times about "not changing the world" until I finally told him that I need to hang up.
I'm not a Republican or Democrat, but Democrats need to modernize their economics.