I refuse to pay $1K (Canadabucks) for something that could be destroyed in an instant if I happen to drop it or sit on it. I get whatever low-end phone Costco is pushing at the moment. The current one is a Moto G Play 2023 that cost me all of CAD$140 on special. It works fine, but bloat can catch up to anything.
I use an app called Flashfood. It was fine. Then they restyled it. And whatever else they did, on my phone it is now so glacially slow that I don't use it as much any more. They'll never know, because they test it on $1K phones where you can waste so much compute on a glorified screen refresh. The actual functionality could have been done with a 2010 vintage phone, if coded efficiently.
They should be testing on low-end phones. Because a significant percentage of the user base has them. Somewhere in a fiction novel I read about a music industry executive who would listen to new material on a crappy little record player, not on super fancy studio monitor equipment. Because that's what it had to sound good on.