For me it is a matter of trust. What does it matter if you're getting security updates faster than everyone else if you're getting them Solar Winds? In other words, if you don't need security against nation-state actors, the highest threat is Google / Apple themselves.

I usually buy pixels used for $200, where are you getting 6/7 phones for that price?

Not really true imo. A lot of stuff is automatic. In kubuntu now, most of my apps from last session starts back up when I turn the computer on. Steam, rhythmbox, nextcloud client like I was saying, and all kinds of stuff start automatically as desktop apps. Panel applets are basically auto start apps.

One thing Linux doesn't really do though is autostart stuff you don't want.

Thanks for dropping that knowledge... Perhaps in years and years hence I'll search "Windows add app to startup lemmy" to remember how to do this... I'm much more used to using msconfig to tell Windows apps NOT to start up automatically...