For me, I kept my last phone for 3 years and upgraded because I didn't have enough storage. New phone is a little nicer, has a few new features, but I may well keep it for a few years again.
I use Black Masking tape to cover them a bunch. It cuts the blinding glare, but you can still see them, as they're often integral configuration.
Frankly, it's not doing much for me. I feel like the population here is looks like an IT team. Overwhelmingly male, largely white, largely het and cis. I've realized one of the things I liked about reddit was how much diversity of people there was.
I think part of it has been watching Twitter just completely abandon any attempts at treating users and developers well, and seeing that people are still active there. Reddit sees Twitter completely fuck over third party devs, and realizes they can do the same and weather the storm, and have it all work out well enough for them.
Teachers. Big time.