Ontop of the various good suggestions already mentioned you could also keep your choice of medium in a safe

Totally agree

Care to elaborate?

Good luck with privacy there. At minimum disable the AI stuff that has access to every app, and that’s if you believe their toggles do anything, which Apple has been proven to not listen to them in the past

One might try KDE Connect, Local Send, and Signal which has a desktop client

Gross

That sounds plausible but I’m trying to focus on the positive here

Let’s try and look at silver linings

What would be great is if price hikes cause people to purchase games that are worth it causing developers to release complete and feature rich games without further abysmal monetization strategies.