Try to reduce your dependence from mobile network oligopolies.

You can get a phone number with Google Voice (yes, ... bad for privacy, but if your wallet demands relieve, that's a price you might be willing to pay). This also lets you drop your Verizon (or other) mobile plan, yet still let you make and receive voice calls and text messages, via wi-fi.

How about when you are not at home or the office, where you don't use wi-fi? There's a lot of public (and accessible) wi-fi out there. If you pay for internet that has "Out-of-Home" / shared / roaming wi-fi service (or whatever they call it), you might find you can access wi-fi almost everywhere you need it. And even if you don't have internet plan with that, perhaps a family member or friend who does will let you mooch off of their plan (you don't even need to be in the same city as them).

For example, There are millioins of Xfinity wifi hot spots. If you check your wifi from your phone, and you see xfinitywifi as a SSID you could connect to, then all you need to use that is to connect once using an xfinity account and then your phone will automatically re-connect to any xfinitywifi SSID no matter where you find one, without needing to "log in" again. Spectrum is another with a huge footprint. There are other similar networks from other ISPs as well (e.g., AT&T wireless), as well as numerous public Wi-Fi hotspots:

How to Find Wi-Fi Hotspots https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/how-to-find-wi-fi-hotspots

If you want to make or receive calls or texts in areas without wi-fi, (e.g., when driving) though, this won't help you. What you might do though is buy a low usage / budget plan or get a phone with a bare bones discount mobile provider, and link your google voice to it, so that you can remain wi-fi first, but still have access to "talk and text" when you don't have any access to wi-fi. Your budget phone service might even include a couple GB of mobile data, which even lets you get online when needed. For some things you still need a mobile number for 2FA (e.g., bank account, ... I know shitty, but they do it) and VoIP/Google Voice numbers may not be permitted for that. So this budget plan/ talk & text approach at least gives you a valid mobile phone number for these 2FA needs as well.

7 Cheapest Talk and Text Only Plans To Cut Your Monthly Bill https://cellularnews.com/mobile-network/cheapest-talk-and-text-only-plans/