Unless people pay for the hardware and software development to happen, Linux phones will never be as feature complete as Android or iPhones, so people will not buy as many, so the prices will not go down.
Also, I gotta disagree reeeeaaal hard with the sentiment in the comments here that Android is Linux since you can slap a terminal on it. Excuse me, but where’s the GNU?
I’m about 80% over to Lemmy myself. There’s enough content here that I can doomscroll memes to my heart’s content now. Reddit, I still end up on on my PC for a few more niche subreddits. Mobile though, I’m just sticking to wefwef/Lemmy until a good GTK client for Lemmy is available (both good options are still in beta right now).
I will give you that, even as an Android disliker, this is pretty cool. Not for me maybe but its cool how portable these environments can be.