The thing is, you gain nothing of value by that new phone every year. It is not masochism when you feel zero pain.

Also, but that is my personal pet peeve, new phones are too big for my hands. I had to buy new, it is smallest that was available and still uncomfortably big.

The smaller phones that were before were more comfortable and i could control them with one hand. So currently it is even loss that i had to buy new.