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The average consumer replaces their phone before it's 3 years old. Some of the more diehard apple people swap iPhones every year when the new ones come out.
Android often only updates the OS once or twice max for any device before dropping support, and the updates often hamper performance and battery life to encourage getting a new phone.
There's been systems in place to copy everything on a phone to another during an upgrade... Android phones prompt users to do so on activation.
Even non-replacable batteries can usually be replaced by a phone repair shop.
The same planned obsolescence is baked into computers, cars and other stuff, it's just a bit more aggressive with phones.
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