I am happy to see efforts in developing alternative platforms for mobile phones, specially focused on the free philosophy of GNU/Linux but I wish these kind of posts were a bit more down to earth.
I understand that the author is quite happy to have a Linux phone but all of the good parts (even the killer feature emacs) could have been achieved with a LineageOS phone with no Google Apps.
Saying "I am really happy with this purchase!" and then in the same breath mentioning that the battery life is quite bad, connectivity is flaky at best, the phone doesn't wake up from suspend and suspend prevents the alarm from working... it's quite disingenuous.