I got the S24+, and my wife got the S25+, and I swear they are the exact same phone.
The changes we are seeing year over year are minute and iterative - gone are the days of anything "revolutionary" driving you to get the latest model every year.
I literally have a laptop in my pocket, and until we can make huge leaps in battery technology (i.e. good, fast, and cheap), I don't think we'll be seeing a need to update our phones for 2-5 years easy.
My current install was done using archinstall, selecting Gnome for the DE, then immediately installing hyprland once that was done. Don't forget, a DE is mostly just a collection of applications.
Sometimes I think about that flying train Doc Brown had at the end of Back to the Future III, I really wanted to see some time traveling train shenanigans.
They seem to forget that "line go up" isn't the primary objective. If you make a good product and give half a shit about your customers, the line goes up as a natural consequence.
He never actually says that in the movie.