I sympathize but you're literally looking at something an hour old and demanding that the economic and political realities that produced it change entirely.

I too have nothing to contribute to this post.

I agree with the sentiment and hopefully am using my last phone like that right now, but I’m also really hoping for very big advances for Linux phones before it comes time to upgrade. Right now they all seem to have serious drawbacks

Explore Pixel Grapheneos Lineageos or Fairphone Unlocked boot loader in pixel to load third party operating system. PinePhone for Linux Ubuntu touch

Exactly my feelings. I want something with custom ROM.

Considering only two major mobile platforms exist and both are proprietary locked down software ecosystems, I assume you have a PinePhone or something?

Very brave take about Apple /s