I've had the first gen PinePhone and my view on it is that this is not really a mass market device yet.

The PinePhone is just too slow to use. It's frustratingly unresponsive.

I hoped the LibreM would be fast enough to make the phone usable.

And then after that, there need to be apps that work, but the Free Phone ecosystem is fractured. There's Android derivatives such as the Lineage or /e/ OS, there are pure Linux variants running Phosh, which was developed by Pureism, but also runs on Mobian and postmarketOS, and there is Plasma Mobile, and UBPorts, as well as GerdaOS, which is based on KaiOS, which is a fork of FirefoxOS.