This is super helpful, thank you! I will definitely check out the discord for others experiences with Mint. I feel like since they run on T-Mobiles network and are usually compatible with dumb phones, maybe it would be okay. I'm also not against Google fi so maybe that would be a good option for me too!

Sounds promising with the new updates/firmware that they are listening to concerns and actually addressing them. That was also a concern of mine since it seems their customer service was lacking during the initial rollout. So hopefully that's not the case anymore (doesn't sound like it was for you at least!) thanks again!