You hit the nail on the head for me. I loved my Galaxy S9+ but it was over 4 years old and literally falling apart. I just replaced it with an S23....but also as others have said, I think the S9+ was better. I'm especially having issues with the camera (look up bananagate) and my old car doesn't have Bluetooth so I have a USB C to Aux adapter that randomly cuts out sound so for a lot of drives I just put the sound up on my phone speakers and play directly.
You're overthinking it. They're both just trying to shoot the other guy first.