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Recently did this and yes it's a pain. I don't know if it's going to help until next time we change phones, but what I did this time was name the device after the person, rather than the phone model.
The idea being that I can delete the old device in the future and replace it with the new device, named the same. That way I don't have to change the device name in each automation every time. Hopefully that made sense. But I still haven't tested it in reality.
I could see that working in theory, but in reality we both still have our old phones - in fact I had to find my wife's old phone this morning and shut off the alarm she'd left on.