I think I’m reading this blogpost correctly: Mobian devs working on maintaining Linux kernel support for Pinephone painted themselves into a corner with tech debt, and may not be able to continue porting new kernel updates. Pinephone Pro runs a different chipset with wider community support, so it’s not affected.
I didn’t see any communities or articles talking about this, so either it’s not a big deal, or nobody is talking about it.
I’m seeing more potential in regular Android phones that have been unlocked. Like the Pixel 3 or fairphone 4. Both of these have pretty wide support in Linux.
But pinephone did spark an arms race. We have a basically functional Linux phone operating system now.