My friend leased for all the reasons you mentioned and had a very bad experience and said she would never do it again.
I'm not sure why you wouldn't be better off with a newer car off of a dealer's lot that still had some warrantee. That way you'd own the car at the end but still have support from the dealer throughout the time you owned it.
I bought a 2018 Ford Escape directly from a Ford dealer, used and it still has almost full warrantee. It will be paid off before the warrantee expires and I will own the car to do whatever I want with. I will keep it until it starts to cost me money in repairs and then I'll sell it and have a good down payment on another used car.
Maybe I'm missing something about the leasing thing?
Watson