Any android phone you would recommend that isn't full of crap and it's still being produced? Before android 12 if possible

[CocaFeca]

My j7 prime seems to be on it's last legs (android 8) and my a10 (android 11) has plenty of things I dislike but I still like it anyway, the thing is we bought 2 moto15 and they were crap, not only with the banned sideloading but also because they had bad interfaces (it literally has Gemini ai over the power button and you have to configure it so it stops, it isn't even in spanish despite the phone's language being in spanish) my mom seems fine with an a10 but dosen't want me to fix the j7 for some reason, so any recommendations?

I only ask it to be compatible with most older apps or their older version (kinda like j7) or that they admit an sd card without much problem, I haven't tried android 9 or 10 so I don't know much about them

Thanks in advance

 

[otogirisou]

banned sideloading

it's already started?

 

[Rocket2049]

I literally had no issues with my Galaxy S8 as far as i can remember, it still works now, just don't expect to play something really fancy like genshin impact or Persona 5 X
it emulated basically all the consoles from NES to like Dreamcast,
really only had issues with 3DS, PS2 and anything more newer
still has a external SD card slot, headphone jack,
honestly any games that don't work well are more better played on PC or elsewhere anyways.
it's android 9 officially, idk about modding, jailbreaking or whatever,