You can buy thick water (designed for people who have trouble swallowing) at pharmacies and every so often I’ll mess with the new guy at work by filling a water bottle with it and taking a swig first thing in the morning after a weekend before saying something like “Damn don’t you hate when you forget your water and it goes bad?” and pouring out a thick stream
I think it’s a bit of a bell curve. You either want to be doing basic stuff like texting, calling, and browsing the odd webpage or you want to be getting into more advanced things and troubleshooting issues regularly.
I would look to see what apps you use in a day and see if there is a decent mobile browser version.
Even some minor stuff like music playback in the background was an issue back when I was using the original Pinephone