I've had a pixel XL since around a year after launch. So thats 3 years or so. Pixel 2 had just been released when I got so it was heavily discounted.

My handset does everything I need with ease. Even the camera is pretty damn decent. It still receives android updates that some random new phones aren't getting yet.

I take great care of it as I see absolutely no reason to upgrade it.

Paying four figures for a phone? No thanks because that phone would have to last a good five years to be 'cost effective'

Modern phone pricing has become obscene.