All of this, but I’d replace the 3 virtual navigation buttons with the 3 physical navigation buttons we used to have!

And you’d have even more screen space if the notch was filled in and people didn’t screech like howler monkies because their phone has a tiny bezel.

VLC works pretty well for me.

I recently came across https://pixelfed.org/ for an Instagram replacement. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but it looks promising. Seems like a federated platform like Lemmy/Mastodon that’s geared towards photo sharing.