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Who isn't? If the phone doesn't break, it becomes unusably slow with any operating system that still receives security updates (if there are any, which is not a given). Also, I have my doubts on whether it's actually possible to reliably delete all data from your old phone as a consumer.
I don't. Maybe I should but I like having an emergency device on hand. That said, I'm due an upgrade in a couple months, so if a trade-in is meaningful, I'll trade my eldest Pixel.
With how many things I log into on my phone I think I'd rather have no phone at all than one that's too old to receive security updates.