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In theory, you're correct. Smartphones have way more attack surfaces than 'dumb phones'for big tech and other sinister actors to exploit. But 'dumb phones' are not clear of this. They are still used by the providers to read your texts and listen in on your calls, plus tracking you based on the towers being used.
It's not easy to make a choice. If you have a smartphone with stock firmware, your whole life is being tracked, if you go with GrapheneOS (my case) some of that is minimized by using Signal and VOIP instead of mobile ams and calls. If you go with the dumb-phone, you're effectively clear from all those tracking methods, but the mobile providers still have a shitload of ways to follow you around together with what you do, when and with whom, but Big Tech is removed from the equation.
Unfortunately, other than not having a portable device of any type with some type of connection, we're flat out of options, and then that would effectively remove you from society for the most part. What a fucking conundrum.