About a half a year after I posted this, I got myself a new phone. Now I'm on a Samsung Galaxy A51 (non-5g) and loving it!
I'm on the ACP/Lifeline plan now through Life Wireless (Pure Talk); they use AT&T towers, so I've not had any kind of hiccups in moving myself over, which is good, because Straight Talk is now owned by Verizon and my mom and stepdad just had to upgrade their phones & move to a new service (US Cellular) because Verizon just does. not. work. here. They both got Samsung Galaxy A14 5g. They're still fumbling around with them, getting used to much newer phones, but I personally am impressed with them and the lady at Walmart said they were the best-selling model of phone all year so far.