We don’t have cell service here in the brush so we have to have a landline or no phone at all.
When I am bored scammers can be entertainment.
If it’s all you got then the landline is fine. My wife used to get mad at me when the scammers and telemarketers and sometimes collectors would call on the landline. If I was bored and feeling feisty and there was nothing on TV, I’d see how long I could keep them on the line using all the rusty interrogation skills I picked up over the years.