I also hate google. I had 2 android phones (both Sony) and can confirm that they are inferior to Apple's iphones in the sense of the operating system (ios beats Android).
Every phone you buy is a smartphone these days. I think analog cellphones don't work anymore? Depends on the country maybe.
If you know what you're doing you could wipe the phone and restore the factory settings (you'll lose everything on it and would be treating it as a brand new phone...no contacts, no photos, no message history etc). That should load an older version of Android before your update. But it will want to update again, and eventually it'll find a way.
The best advice I can think of is to get an Apple but its equally intrusive
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