My wife and I purchased dumb phones but there were a few pain points we encountered. First, my wife especially would get lost and so we were going to need to buy a GPS, possibly for both cars. We also have a two year old and capturing moments with a camera was limited; we figured we'd end up spending $500 or more on a camera with equivalent features to an iPhone. Eventually we settled on enabling the parental controls on one anothers phones. I aggressively turn off notifications, to the point where my laptop doesn't even display the time as I consider it a distraction to constantly glance at the clock.