Originally Canadian, but a dual citizen now. I'm one of those immigrants who came and stole a job.
(yes, this is legitimately one of the available stickers, and I was super pumped about it)
I got the "I voted yay" one!
That's the thing--it's more than bug fixing. They're reworking a large amount of the content. I'll probably pick it back up in a few months and see how it's coming.
Seg fault
Good to know which part of The Lorax we're at.
As others have mentioned, there are no good BifL options. Based on what I gather from your post, your best option is probably getting 2nd hand devices and following behind by a few years. You can probably keep a 3-year-old device for 7 or 8 years (which is ages in the smartphone world), then "upgrade" to another 3-year-old device at that time.
For this, I'd recommend something popular like a Pixel. They have a number of options for alternative OSes (Graphene and LineageOS are both good options) and they've done well for me as long-term use phones.
I've bought my last couple phones on Swappa, and I've had no issues with any of them. Sold one on there too, and they're pretty vigilant (they manually review posts before they can go public).
"What's your gender?"
"Canadian."
"No, who do you like?"
"Donuts."
"No no, what's in your pants?"
"Polite manners."
"Hey baby... wanna watch Netflix and dismantle the patriarchy?"
I haven't tried it on monsoon, so I can't say. It's possible--testing is the thing that bigger companies seem to like to cut corners on to save money and get things out faster, so it's entirely possible. But at least it sounds like they're taking the feedback to heart, so it could still end up pretty good with some rework.