That’s why I love my thriftiness! I have a gaming PC, not the nicest but it can run any modern games well enough at 1080p/60fps, it might be worth around 1000 but I’ve upgraded it slowly over years. I have no TV, I bike to work, I got my phone for 300 in 2019 and it still works great.
I looked into upgrading my phone recently, I can’t even find a phone that has better hardware that I would want for a reasonable price, the only major improvement would be the camera, all other stats on mine are just as good or better than comparable new phones.