I’ve purchased several budget/midrange phones as my daily driver, and the long term performance simply wasn’t worth it based on the things that I do with my phone.
Now, this is based on cheaper phones with specs from several years so this doesn’t hold true anymore.
I’d say that the exception flagship (base S22) was not good due to its chip.
I’d spent months Googling for battery life fixes. I’d come across a myriad of comments blaming users for not “optimising” their phones, and Ultra users saying that the poor battery life and overheating throttling of the base model are just myths.
One day, I decided that enough is enough. I switched to a phone with the S8G2 and I couldn’t be happier.
While I haven’t used it before, the S23 seems to be what the S22 should be, and I would’ve continued using it if that was true.