You said: paying for a device to be dropped like a bad habit a year or two down the road. Basically you implied Samsung's Galaxy S smartphones can be completely abandoned after a year.It’s a fact, I said OS updates which you conveniently left out...Sure you get security updates for a few years but full features OS updates are only promised for two years.......
And in terms of OS features Samsung's UI is years ahead of anything from Apple and even in comparison to stock Android so not getting a lot of new OS versions isn't really a huge deal. I would say security updates are more important.