@matt No it was not always bad. I have some old phones as well. Things were better.
The reissued Nokia 3310 was pretty OK IMHO (the UI was not as good as the old ones but passable and typing was fine)
The "Nokia 225 4G" has noticably worse UI than the 3310 reissue but is 4G. Typing is much the same.
@matt All KaiOS phones make me want to kill myself after a while.
So it really does not matter than they have WhatsApp and can upload GPS to Strava because everything else makes me want to tear my hair out.
@matt Light Phone 2 is probably the best of my small collection of feature phones but I must admit I have not used it for a while… so that might say something
I see they have a bunch of updates. Maybe I should try it again
@matt Oh and I also have a Mudita Pure which has no predictive text at all and a number of annoying bugs. Plus it is much much uglier in person than the images made out.