@NONE @AzulCrescent I remember throwing my phone at the floor as a very angry teen a decade ago, it was one of the first few droid phones, and I kept it in the case and screen protector I got it in. So when I spiked it at the ground in a tantrum, instead of breaking, it bounced, hit the tall ceiling of the room, fell back down, and was completely intact.
I still feel a bit of embarrassment about throwing a few hundred dollar phone in anger, but teenage hormones are like that.
But tl;dr a "durable enough for life" phone existed over a decade ago, phones today must be designed to be fragile. Phones from that era would run the software designed for it just fine today too.