Correct. I was a bit harsh, I apologize for that. Nicely put though.
People will buy what they want and use what they want. At the end of the day ED is a bit like Steve Jobs here. Steve Jobs wasn't an engineer or sales man. He was a product person. He could clearly visualize a tool that a specific group of users needed and had it built and polished and delivered in a shiny package to them (He did this over and over again in his career). ED is kind of like that on this project. ED clearly sees that there are a bunch of us that want this form factor with all of these features and he is bringing the product to us completed and ready to use.
I won't have to 3d print anything my self, I won't have to know anything about electronics, I won't have to struggle to learn yet another bullshit esoteric programming language just to get it to do stuff or deal with the hyper customization (see Librem 5) to customize it to what I want it to do.
I have a few Pyras on order + a Librem 5. I will buy the Pyraphone if it becomes a thing just by default. It's the right kind of re-mix and the right kind plug and play platform.
I think that critical differentiator for me is whether or not the lcd is mounted on the main pcb or not as part of the core design. If it is mounted on the pcb then it has the same limitations as Librem 5, Pyraphone, Pinephone or anything in that format: it is going to need a touch interface, it is going to need to be dumbed down, the battery size will be limited, the amount of peripherals will be limited because of the form factor and so forth.
Having the cpu as an addon, it can either sit on the lcd pcb or the keyboard pcb which allows for all sorts of form factors. I my self would like to remix the keyboard one day my self so being able to reprint the one pcb + one plastic part of the case is really interesting because everything else is re-usable. Another option (one day) might be to build a new case and make the lcd REMOVABLE. The reason that I say removable is because if i could hot swap in an lcd set in this form factor:
Axon-M:
... then I can take the Pyra into LUDICROUS MODE! I know someone mocked up a dual screen capable Pyral in another thread. The Axon-M form factor is a field proven approach to foldable dual screens. I can't imagine remixing the Librem 5 or the Pinephone into such ridiculousness because they are not modular enough.
So yeah. There is room for the Pinephone and all of the other projects.