The latest GG are for drop protection but way easier to scratch compared to old GG.

That is the reason why other OEMs opt to put the very old GG3 because it has the right balance of drop and scratch resistance.

Silly question but I hope someone can answer -

What if I traded in an old phone with zero value (as per the trade-in price) and still received the RM600 additional discount but upon collecting the old phone, I lost it or threw it away and won't be able to give it, will Samsung cancel my order?

The bulk of those 38gb might be videos.
You can easily delete them using any file manager.
Just navigate to Android > Media > com.whatsapp > Whatsapp > Media

Then open the folder for videos, pics or whatever.
You will see all your files inside and can manually delete one by one.

Once deleted, do another WhatsApp backup. This way, your newly-backed up data will be less than 38gb.

It's just Sammy's.
Taken from another Android phone

It's no secret that older GG versions are more scratch resistant and newer versions are more drop resistant. This has been confirmed countless times by many articles and phone reviews.

The only drawback in getting a Samsung is the huge amount of system storage it takes up. The rest are just nitpicking.

But then again, even the base 256gb storage is sufficient imo.

iPhone batteries are good just because the screen uses 60hz in most situation. It will only use 120hz when scrolling/navigating through their native apps and only to 3rd party apps where app developers have MANUALLY enabled 120hz.

By default, if an iOS App developer did not bother changing their code, the app will still use 60hz even on the latest iPhones.

This is in contrast to Android apps where the system's selected refresh rate will take precedence than the app itself.