and hijacking back/forward

Great UI and it was very helpful to me as a newcomer

funny enough, the disclaimer comes after the term is used in the title and url.

"repeated use" seems to be doing the mitigation work here, though it does seem unusual that someone offended by the repetition would be unoffended by a one-off.

and increase power usage?

current iphone would have no issue with this as long as you dont apply pressure.

or buy a product that is small and does both things

And have worse of both.

Smartphones are worse computing devices than laptops or desktops. Smartphones are also the most widely-used computing devices in the world, even by people sat at home with a better computing device on the other side of the room. History suggests worse just doesn't matter in the face of convenience.

i tend to watch videso on phone but love to switch to ipad for reading documents.

Have you ever taken care of a 5yo? They are certainly safer in public alone than a 3yo. How much more, hard to say.

You should check out a Japanese show called "Old Enough!".

I have a 7 year old and a 4 year old. The 7 year old started back at school after the summer holidays and some of her friends had to be taken into class early, showed signs of having anxiety attacks and distress. While I'm slightly hypocritical here, we live on a busy road so it's not really suitable for them to go wandering alone, we do try to give them as much autonomy as we can.

I'm pretty sure the societal pressure to helicopter around children constantly is a net negative to their well-being.