The community around Linux phones is interesting. The phones do sell to a lot of people, but it seems a lot of those people come back to complain that Linux phones isn't what they expected it is. For some reason all the distributions for the PinePhone are bending over backwards
Yes, but the ship sailed with Android long ago. Linux mobile ecosystem has to build itself up quickly and become reliable enough and battery efficient to have a chance, with ease of use and extra perks over Android like easy tunnelling of VPNs, builtin firewall and so on. It will go a long way.
Also, Linux community has to be reasonable with expectations with inferior hardware available for Linux phones, compared to Android counterparts.