Wow what an extensive and thoughtful post. Thank you for writing it. I agree that our approach is rooted in a long-term view of what’s good for the whole Linux ecosystem, not just the mobile ecosystem. This will become more apparent as time goes on and developers make their existing Linux desktop applications adaptive, instead of having to port them to a new mobile platform. Maintaining a “desktop” and “mobile” version of an app, much less maintaining multiple mobile versions for different platforms, is a lot to ask of developers.
When people ask us “how many apps does Librem 5 have?” I sometimes answer that we already have thousands but most of them just don’t fit yet, at least on the default, unscaled phone screen. The real power of this approach will also start to become more apparent once we complete DisplayPort support and you start to see the Librem 5 operate in desktop/laptop mode.