There is purism with their librem phones, I wonder why the author didn't mention them in the end of the article.
It's reasonably stable. The 3 GB limitation is kind of annoying, because a lot of apps like to use 400-500 MB each, so I really can only have one app open at a time.
I don't use too many apps (the only social media I have is Mastodon), so there isn't much tradeoffs to me. Ironically, most of the tradeoffs I used to have to make, I helped fix. I made a meshtastic app, I helped to get GPS working with geoclue for navigation, I made a voicemail app. The main tradeoff for me is the battery really. But in a day to day scenario, I do sit in an office or at home, so it really just sits on one of two chargers.
I said it in a sibling comment, but yeah, battery life leaves a lot to be desired with heavy usage.