I agree with every point you made. A counter-point: I, and many others, ended up funding puri.sm to actually undertake this project. Which included hiring a b

I agree with every point you made. A counter-point: I, and many others, ended up funding puri.sm to actually undertake this project. Which included hiring a bunch of people full time to work on the software on all layers of the stack. Today we have a much different landscape with pinephone and others working to slowly release phones too. My take is that we needed this kickstart of the libre-phone movement. They started it, before them there was nothing relevant going on. They obviously didn't do it alone, far from it. But they showed there was real money to be made, they pushed consistently and had actual people do the hard work. So, even though I have not actually received an actual piece of hardware, I'm still happy I funded their campaign. I may not get a great piece of hardware, but I did get a lot of worth for my money.