I’ve never experienced this and I’ve only had budget android devices since 2018. My partner has had whatever the most expensive iPhone was every 3 years or so. Haven’t noticed a difference in performance for our uses, which aren’t particularly resource intensive, just web browsing, social media, and communication mostly. Light games like stardew valley occasionally. I think you must have gotten unlucky with a bad device.

Him speaking at the RNC was not in and of itself bad–i heard him justify it later and he made some good points, that there are a lot of exploited workers in the base who could stand to hear the benefits of unions from a union leader instead of just hearing Fox propaganda. But to look at the tax cuts, the benefit cuts, and the tariff outcomes and double down on Trump makes it abundantly clear where his loyalties lie–his own pockets, and maybe his own prejudices.