I appreciate the thought? But depending on the friend or the contact I have to use
- SMS
- phone
- Signal
- FB Messenger
- IG Messenger
...to communicate with people. And singling out email as something you should avoid is a weird choice; if you need to talk to anyone over 40 in a professional capacity, they'll use email.
The nice thing about a rooted, jailbroken Android phone is you can kill ads at the kernel and really, installing social media is a choice. The Asian market is chockablock with tiny, semi-useless little devices you can walk around with; just search "smallest Android phone" on eBay to see a selection. Nate Wren will even give you most of that look if you want it.
Having just bounced two non-AT&T phones onto an AT&T network, I'm more than a little gunshy of a custom OS. Carriers are really not great about supporting phones they don't sell.