>Buddha says not to get attached to views like "I have a self" or "I have no self" because it's inappopriate attention
>anons in Buddhism threads constantly argue about what the Buddha actually believed about whether there was or was not a self
It's all so tiresome. But, if anons are interested in the answer I've found most satisfying, it's this booklet: https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/SelvesNot-self/Section0005.html

The key idea I think is in picrel. The Buddha wasn't interested in the metaphysics of whether there was or was not an underlying invisible unifying substance of some sort that might be called a soul. Instead, he was interested in what is directly experienced, and he viewed perceptions of self and not self as actions: either you identify with something or you don't identify with something. And within subjective experience all identification is subject to change or disidentification, so in that sense there is no unchanging self.