>>145468
the most annoying thing about phones is the fact that the software selection is ass for no reason
you absolutely could do a bunch of shit on your phone these days

but also
>gaming, programming, visual production, audio production, image manipulation, VFX, colour-grading, digital sculpting
all my VSTs work the same on my laptop from 2015
most shit I'd work on programming doesn't take terribly long to compile and I'd be far more interested in its performance on an older machine when running the result anyway
gaming hasn't made me need to buy a new machine in a while
most image editing I'd do has no need for a particularly fast machine either, but I also put up with an old ass version of Photoshop on a 1999 iMac for ages so...

vfx and sculpting, I'd sure hope wherever I worked spent the money on a new machine for me ( ´ω`)