I hate

I hate having to have a new phone. "Oh it's really simple, all you have to do is this and this and it's done"
Is it bollocks!

I think there's a bit of a window between losing everything except your contact list and having half your shit back, subject to brand, settings, and possible third-party assistance here and there...

But yeah, I have no idea how I'd preserve my 300 open browser tabs without laboriously bookmarking or copying all the URLs... Not sure about SMS chat history either, if I was to change brands.

Not that I'm about to after eventually giving up on janky Chinese brands to settle on Samsung, but this phone (I think it's the first one I've bought new?) has just about run out of support, so it's getting on time to buy another phone bury myself in XDA and Google for a fortnight figuring out how to root the bastard so I can flash it with an OS made by humans cooperating, as opposed to a corporation. That transition is bound to make a bit of a clunk...