The Apple iPhone 11 is often recommended as the go-to iPhone for the average Joe: it’s a $700 iPhone after all, not as prohibitively expensive as the $1,000+ Pro series, and yet you still get basically the same outstanding camera quality and the fast performance.
But if you are looking for the best “bargain iPhone”, I would recommend against the iPhone 11.
The reason for that is that the iPhone 11 feels like a compromised device in 2019: the screen might not be bad per se, but it’s just not on par with modern standards.