Advice on selecting a suitable screen (controller)

[daxliniere]

Hey everyone,
Needing a 3.5" 480*320px LCD screen for a project I'm working on, I've read a lot of posts here. Many of them are people having problems with the screen they bought so I thought it would be best to ask the question BEFORE making a purchase.
Looks like @David_Prentice has spent a lot more time than he needed to helping people troubleshoot screen problems.

The screen will be used to display text, menus and simple sprite-based graphics which won't be updated frequently (2-4x per second would be ample). It will also need to be a touch screen.

I will probably be using an ESP-32 since I understand it is a little faster than an Arduino and has more memory. The latter feature could help me avoid needing to use the SD card reader that many LCD displays include. I'd like a minimal number of pins for the screen to maximise I/O for other purposes if possible. (SPI or I2C interface, perhaps?)

Below are the options I have available. What would you recommend?
-R61581
-ILI9486
-ILI9488 (same link as above)
-ILI9481 (same link as above)
-a different ILI9486

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

All the best!
Dax.

[bradley2020]

It's difficult for anyone to say which board you should use as it is completely contextual, i.e., it depends on what your application is.

A better approach might be to use the most commonly used board. So if you go onto the Arduino store, Adafruit or ThePiHut, which one are people using the most.
That way, you are most likely to use a device that has the most up to date libraries, more example projects online and better community support.

Sorry if it isn't a direct answer, but I've found that this is the best approach whenever I have needed to buy a new sensor and there have been lots available!