We used to have earbuds that don't need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn't get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k
I still have a newish mid range phone with it, it runs most newer games, Zenless Zone Zero is the only that doesn't work, you just have to get comfortable with not owning Apple or Samsung.
Genshin Impact, Wuthering Waves, Tower of Fantasy are all open world action rpgs so they are pretty demanding, and ZZZ has very detailed character models and background scenery.
On the iOS department you can just try any of the console ports like Death Stranding and Resident Evil 8.