I do the opposite - until I went to Disney (for which I wanted a top-of-the-line mobile camera so I didn’t have to lug my Sony ILCEs around), I went for low-midrange devices. The challenge is finding a low-midrange Android device that does not suck. Time and time again, the only devices that meet that criteria are the Motorola Moto G family. The original G was the first lowend device that wasn’t utter garbage, and its descendants still are.
Lowend Samsungs are universally garbage. At least it’s not something with a MediaTek chipset.