Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it’s been going downhill since.

  • If you want the absolute cheapest for like a test drive, the cheapest (new) phone I found, that has the USA bands at least, is the Moto G 5G 2024, compatible with both Lineage and e/OS, only like $140 unlocked, you need to connect to the internet for 7 days before you can toggle the “Bootloader Unlocking” toggle in Developer Settings, idk why, and you need an unlock code from motorola website. I did it, and successfully installed Lineage OS.

    Can’t really multitask with 4gh ram tho, so you can’t really do multiapp without stuff just closing in the background, but you get privacy for cheap