Right, this is the most reasonable approach to do, i.e. taking the Librem 5 guts and refactoring the main PCB to fit into a tablet shell.
We have spent literally years developing the Librem 5 platform, on the hard- and software side. It did not take that long because we were sitting on our hands, but because it was such a great amount of work, even with the extremely dedicated and skilled team we have. We could start it all over for a tablet but that would make no sense. So better take what we have from the Librem 5 and just change the size. Well, actually, there is a little more to it than just changing the size, but at least it seems very feasible and frankly we plan on doing this once we have the Librem 5 in a stable state, i.e. continuously shipping. With the recent major disruptions in component supply chains this has become a real pain and is eating a lot of effort. Right now I would not expect us to be able to start a tablet project this year. For the next months we have to fight hard for being able to ship our current products like the Librem Mini, the new Librem 14 and of course the Librem 5.
Cheers
nicole