wait until Google releases a new pixel this fall, buy "last year's" pixel at a discount and they are supported for 7 (?) years of updates (including firmware).
I would recommend GraphenesOS bc they only deal with android and pixel phones so there is a high level of compatibility and things rarely break. (In many cases GrapheneOS was more stable than Google's android, recently with the multiple profiles and memory bug). They also push fixes and security hardening upstream sometimes.
Anyway, GrapheneOS will support a Pixel for as long as the manufacturer (Google) releases firmware updates. So you have the potential of 7+ years of support from GrapheneOS.
hahaha good point.
That colleague, keep in mind is a bit older, also has Vim navigation burned into his head. I think where he was coming from, all these new technologies and syntax for them, he much rather prefers right clicking in the IDE and it'll show him options instead of doing it all from command line. For example docker container management, Go's devle debugger syntax, GDB. He has a hybrid workflow tho.
After having spent countless hours on my Vim config only to restart everything using Lua with nvim, I can relate to time sink that is vim.