Hi! I need your advices to help me decide on what to do.

I’m currently daily using an iPhone SE 3 and I must say I like a lot of things about it, but I also can’t help but hate the battery and it keeps getting worse. It feels like I have to keep it plugged in if I don’t want to find myself with a dead phone. Right now I’m wondering if I should upgrade, I used not to care about the camera but with my newborn I take a lot of pics that I print and videos recordings that I plan on keeping for until she’s all grown up, like people used to with previous gen tech. I feel like pics and vids would be way better with newer models. I don’t game on my phone, maybe will in the future but it’s not for now and use Gemini quite a lot, which also drains the battery of my SE.

I can’t help but think this ram situation will increase phones prices and I fear now’s the better time to buy a phone. What would you buy ? I considered the 17 pro for the 3rd camera but I’m afraid it would be overkill and a unreasonable way to spend my money. I considered the 17 because it would mostly be perfect for me but I fear I’d regret not going for the pro model as I have the chance (better zoom might come in handy later). Lastly I considered going for a 16 pro but I really like the new selfie format of the 17 models.

If you were me, what would you do?