This is probably the only review you'll ever read that favours the iPhone 7 over 17e.
But it's a very modern tale. Customer loyalty no longer counts for anything at all in a culture that views people as data or a marketplace founded on adverts and churn.
So when you're broadband is up, the monthly subs are as well and you've to shop around for a new provider at half the price and double the speed until you do it all over again two years on.
This in itself meant a new router with upgraded security that means the printer will not connect without use of the accompanying app... which won't run on a ten-year old phone.
And thus the new phone's part in this, Elton's vicious Circle of Life.
On balance in many ways I prefer the previous, being lighter, simpler and suiting my needs. I know people who voted for Brexit that way, viewing the 1970s ~ before we joined the EU ~ to have been simpler and happier too.
Whereas with each successive upgrade to phone and internet (or increasingly AI), what we can do expands at pace whilst our mental well-being shrinks.
