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The only real obstacle for me is that a large fraction of what I do with my phone is listen to Spotify. It's not clear to me whether or how well it will be supported. (More research: looks like I would have to install Ubuntu Touch and a third party app?)

That said, I'm tempted to go for it anyway.

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I don't use that service, but it looks like they have a player for the web browser, so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

You probably won't have the option to store your playlists locally though, and streaming music with mobile net could get expensive. The other big apps without good mobile web versions are Whatsapp, Signal, and Telegram. Those could be show-stoppers for some people.

Telegram Desktop would run fine on Librem 5 on Plasma Mobile (magic of QT) and clunky on Gnome (but I might be wrong), as well as APKs on Android emulator like Anbox.

It might require DRM? (Mystery binary blobs running in your browser to enable DRM is in the web standards.)

There is an open source client library for Spotify Premium though, it seems:

https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/blob/master/READM...

Spotify has a linux client that runs on electron. The Librem 5 runs a full Debian OS. So you should be able to run electron on it without any issues.

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