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UI toolkit choice puzzles me. They should have used Qt or even partnered with Plasma Mobile to begin with. Regarding the GPU, they are supposedly working with Mesa/etnaviv, but it's in the very raw state so far. I don't think it even supports OpenGL 3.1 yet. And big question is about power management side of things.

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I pretty much agree with your recommendations, but they didn't pick GTK+ per se — they wanted GNOME on a phone, so they picked GNOME and use its toolkit.

Choice of Gnome (vs KDE Plasma) is also questionable in my view. But I suppose they had some reasons.

Consistency across products - their PureOS runs Gnome.

c.f. Canonical running Unity on desktop and phone.

The (ever increasing) inflexibility, or perhaps more politely, extremely focused opinionatedness, of Gnome shell makes this seem an unfortunate choice for a project requiring so much adaptation and innovation.

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