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We hit a plateau around 2020. Watch Apple's keynotes when they compare performance to the "competition." You'll notice they never specify what, exactly. It's fine when they compare to their own past generations, but they never give solid numbers, they just throw ballpark figures out. When they bust out the charts, they don't tell you what they're comparing with. (Android keynotes, the ones I've watched from Google and Samsung, tend to focus more on features, since they're selling phones and software โ Google buys their chips and Samsung does as well in addition to making chips for others.)
I have an iPhone from 2024 (16 Pro Max, so the top model, and now the second-most powerful model) and a Galaxy S10 from 2019. The S10 is still better at a few things, and hardly a bad phone in any regard (except, it's not being used as a phone, it has no cell service, it's just a WiFi device at this point).
Shitty apps are going to continue to bloat. They do on iOS as well. Only, we can't delete cache. You have to uninstall and reinstall. It's kinda shit in that regard (and others, to be fair).
The key isn't to avoid the top phones, it's to stop buying the latest top phone. Buy one from a year or two ago. iPhones lose half their value every year. It's worse for Android. Of course, those are the values from the manufacturers. You always get more selling privately. But when the new ones come out, people are looking to sell their old ones. Give them a fair deal and get a phone for a fraction of what it cost new. Also, a used phone purchase is not a new phone purchased, so it hurts their numbers (I mean, instead of the seller selling to the manufacturer and you both buy new phones, you buy from the seller and the seller buys a new phone, so it's 1 new sale instead of 2).