I want so badly to agree with you, but it's become rather clear that puri.sm is a bit of a sleazy company, or at least its leadership is.

I've spoken with multiple ex-purism employees who were laid off before the librem5 shipped. Their comments largely echoed what's in Zlatan's Phoronix interview. [0]

At the moment I'm inclined to support Pine64 over Purism. We're not so desperate for a linux phone that we should throw our resources behind poorly run, misleading companies.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T...