The only tablet we have in the house is a really old Lenovo one for the kids accassional youtube fix and google classroom type guff and it has been very reliable, if a little slow and seriously lacking in storage, it came with very little in the way of bloatware and I would definately have another over a Samsung amd day fo the week.
Unfortunately tablet apps are generally designed to be run on internal memory so this should be prioritised when buying another tablet.
Personally, as much as I hate Apple stuff normally, I would be leaning toward some form of ipad if it were used regularly but for your usage a fairly up to date Lenevo with enough memory to be future proof for a while should be more than good enough.