I feel your pain, but as parents we always want our kids to have the best, even if it means we can't.
Good on you.
Lol, for the record: we are blissfully happy Huawei users. Android really does knock the spots off of iOS at this stage of the game IMO. Just got tired of jumping through hoops for that sweet sweet ecosystem. Now all my base are belong to Google and I guess i'm OK with that. Not happy. Just OK.
iPhone had a good run but they started slipping behind in terms of capability and performance and that was the death knell, in my family at least.
I remember the 1st gen iPhone, that device got so many updates and each time it was like having a new phone! I was importing them and unlocking the baseband so it was expensive but that sparkly new iOS made it feel like a great deal, Apple had the same thing going for them with the MBP, expensive but sturdy and long lived, good deal if you can manage the initial forking out.
Then I had an iPhone 5 that bogged down completely with the first iOS update I took for it, got worse from there. OTA updates have never worked on iOS for me (admittedly I gave up after having to factory restore more than once) and the reliance on iTunes was always crappy and hard to defend.
None of these things are an issue on Android (so far) and as a 'power user' I have to admit that scratching around the menus on my first Android only to find a
built in file browser that I quickly connected to my media centre PC where I cold download music directly
to a folder of my choice over the damned WiFi no less! ...was a light on the road to Damascus experience for me. Google Assistant makes a mockery of Siri... the list goes on. I really like Android now.