I hope people won’t give up on it if it ends up being a rough experience for them. In fact, I hope they tell Purism, or the respective developers if they’re specific to apps, the pain points so that they can be addressed. The latest review from Rob Braxman (I’m cross posting here so that I only have to update the link once if it changes) is pretty scathing and I hope that people can see the work being poured into it and have patience as things get smoothed out.
Edit: I should point out once of the numerous improvements I’ve noticed: the idle battery life is much better with the latest kernel, at the time of writing – When I first received my Librem 5, it drained at about 10% ever hour with very few apps running in the background. Now it drains at roughly 6-8% per hour depending on what I leave open.