Samsung Dex is half way decent with a lot of drawbacks, and funnily enough the Tablet Dex version is optimized better, probably by intention. I wouldn't hope to see it optimized to where it is really useful since they'll be loosing cash on other products, but it could be useful from time to time.

There's nothing the Miradock can fix or make better and most usb combo hubs also fail at the same, they are just cheaper. However, if your phone isn't compatible with it, it won't be of much use. If you have an older model, a compatible keyboard/mouse combo and maybe screencast if yours supports it is enough.

Gonna be honest here, I'm starting to wonder what cheap ass, peak capitalism, planned obsolescence kind of back end products most people buy for their batteries to last only 2-3 years.

I've had phones with li-ion batteries that still work for 8+ years. The motherboards and protective plates have started to corrode and the plastic has started to degrade and fall off in chunks, but the batteries don't shows any wear and tear. And that was a $350 low/mid tier phone at the time. I'm even thinking of rooting it to install a custom Rom and give it a few more years of life, if I can find a back plate replacement cause the buttons fell off.

Looks like there was a gender reveal party upstream.