Good to hear.

Amazon had brand new 2nd gens for $79 about a week and a half ago. I haven’t checked lately cause Apple replaced my gen 1 after the 17.0 update killed it. If they didn’t replace it that’s what I would have gone with.

I have 2 1st gens and they work perfectly fine for me. I don’t like FaceTime so that wouldn’t matter to me. If that is a must have then go for it.

You might consider calling them and explain what happened and tell them your worried about a future update bricking the device. The worst they can say is no.