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>>skille+(OP)
I feel like the elephant in the room is that there's no phone battery that's going to stay useful in anywhere close to that time frame, and replacing phone batteries is usually a losing proposition. I've tried, several times. Fake, low-quality batteries are rampant (usually degrading within weeks), and genuine ones are prohibitively expensive -- usually a significant fraction of the cost of a new phone.

>>wheels+B7
I have a nexus 6p with a battery charging to 60% and the battery is on year 4 right now, runs android 11, and seems to have no end in sight for the battery. The phone itself is 2015 I got from a relative who bought a Pixel 3.

So battery if handled properly will last a very long time. So while battery issues can't be dismissed, at least it often can be replaced or otherwise worked around. The bigger issue is storage errors and being permanently locked out.

The Google Pixel 3 phone he bought died after 2 years due to the operating system not properly handling errors in the non-volatile storage, which is a very common error in Pixel 3/3XL/4 and maybe future ones as well. Google doesn't offer the firehose so owners are out of luck not able to reformat or recover the phones at all and completely locked out by the qualcomm bootloader with phones stuck in EDL mode.

Google Pixel 3 EDL to see how prevalent the problem is, and google just doesn't care to help people fix the issue.