I'd recommend the iPhone 13 Mini because it will give you at least another year of software support and is generally the same phone. The battery on both of these phones are abysmally small so a degraded battery will provide pain.

A warning about the cases: Since Apple has discontinued manufacturer of the phone, they also stopped accessory manufacturing. The chinese have swooped in and they are producing very convincing fakes passed off as authentic. I recently purchased what I thought was a true authentic Apple Silicone case off eBay only to discover weak magsafe performance(the phone kept falling off my car mount).

I discovered to my shock that it was a fake. The packing was nearly identical to real OEM (purchased from Target) and it was only after looking at it with a magnifying glass I discovered packaging print quality issues compared to OEM.

The thing that initially revealed that it was a fake was magnet paper showing a clear difference in magnet design.

FAKE: https://i.imgur.com/9gVy3ks.png (sorry I slightly cropped this image to cover up blurry reflection but the full magnet is showing)

REAL: https://i.imgur.com/0m5AopW.png

The real is a stronger magnet and designed differently.

Also note: The fake case does the sae Apple "animation" on attachment that a real case does because they have likely cloned the NFC tag from the authentic case.

I'm holding onto my 13 Mini for dear life and have Applecare+ on it so I can get any hardware fixed when needed. This is me just really committing to this mini design cost be damned.

This way I get a new OEM battery every other year or so and I can thrash it as much as I want.

Screen replacements are even wonderful for me but I had to learn the hard way: Upon buying the phone, I got a belkin screen protector and it goes up to the edge of the screen but leaves a tiny gap. Well the phone fell on the ground and hit that tiny gap causing a microcrack in the corner of the screen where the protector wasn't protecting. :/

On replacing the screen, i'm like why bother with the screen protectors when a brand new calibrated OLED screen is only 29$ with my plan.