Another example of how leasing costs you: You have a low mileage example of an in-demand car that holds its value well. IDK what your residual is, but you probably have (theoretical) equity in the car.
The problem is, how do you get any equity out? To sell it private party, you’d have to pay off the car and get the title. So that’s out. You can take it to Carmax but there’s none within 2 hours of you, and there’s no guarantee they’ll give you much better than wholesale. You can go essentially door to door from Honda dealer to Honda dealer, but who has the time for that? And if you don’t know how to calculate a lease, how do you know they’re not just moving numbers around… pretending to give you a better trade value while making it up somewhere else?
OTOH if you owned the car you could hold on to it longer or sell it privately if you needed to. It would sell like a hot cake.