@hazardwarning Re: too small. I would find SE screen size claustrophobic by now. I grabbed the first Plus model three years ago and am still using it now. Swapped battery myself last week.
But one thing you may not know is an option is some of the UI settings on iOS to make the UI easier to see. I am a fan of tweaking display and accessibility settings to bump up control and text size a bit. There’s Display Zoom (weird name - notches up control sizes) and a Text Size slider that lets you play with that separately.