The good news is, if updates bother you, Google have been slowly transitioning to a modular system where they can deploy updates bypassing the manufacturers and not requiring the entire OS to be updated, these will be deployed to phones that are EOL as well.
As an example although I have deliberately kept my phone on Android 11, I was able to update some modules including wifi, via their modular update system, this surprisingly isnt automatic by default I think, it should be somewhere in the android settings, google are going to move it to the play store I think.