[nameisname]

You're not in some minority, that's a new phone every three years and is in line with the market. Also, who are you buying from that is supporting their software for that long? I think I've gotten maybe 2 years of updates if in lucky with anyone but Google. So you've admitted you're upgrading because of software features. This is the entire issue. I still play triple A games at 1440p 144hz on a 10 year old PC with a 2700k and see no reason to upgrade because of software. Infact, my computer doesn't support windows 11 and that's a blessing imo. My laptop is a t440p which is almost 10 years old and I've never needed to upgrade because of software. I run Windows 10 fine and arch even better. I can play some games and stream the rest. The planned obsolescence of cell phones is not about hardware, it's about software and advertising. Nobody should need to have a new phone every two years.

[hprotagonist]

> Also, who are you buying from that is supporting their software for that long?

Apple; my iphone 6S (released 2015) runs iOS 15 just fine. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/supported-models-iphe...

7+ years of support certainly permits a phone every 5 for a nicer camera...