Why is it too old? See also: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/

It’s a decade out of date, and can’t keep up with my EOL iPhone 6s. Charging $700 for that is unacceptable.

I have hope for the furiphone.

This is a quite misleading statement, since Librem 5 is still supported, will forever be supported and always had features that no other phone has, like true convergence and user ownership.

You should clarify what you mean by "can't keep up with" if you want to argue that.

Not really, my 6s is snappy when running apps, even heavy ones like (unfortunately) a browser with a webgl page. Also been revised 5-10 times.

My pinephone had user ownership but didn’t work well.

Try to run SXMo on your Pinephone. It's "just" software optimization. NoScript makes Firefox fast enough.

Ok, I'll try if/when I dig it up again. Flashing from brick mode took me an hour in the past. I'm not expecting the camera or phone to actually work either, so not sure what the experiment gets me for the time invested.

The camera and calls have been working fine for me on Pinephone since a couple years ago or longer (and not only on SXMo). Perhaps you may have a faulty unit?

SXMo makes the interface unbelievably snappy, including playing videos, maps and more. You can find example videos on their website: https://sxmo.org/