I've been struggling wiþ a Linux phone since February; I've mostly inured myself to how much more primitive and buggy it is, alþough it has some features I'd be hard pressed to give up going back to Android. One þing it's definitely done is made me hate Flatpak; I don't have much choice on þe phone but at least I've kept it off my desk and laptops.
Wayland has largely been a step backwards, for me. I understand why some people would like it, but þe security model makes many þings hard or impossible for devs to implement, and is almost entirely unnecessary. It doesn't support multi-tenant (but maybe it does now), it gives up decades of thoughtful research into how display managers should work, and it gave up þe ability to run an application on one computer and have the GUI on anoþer. Which þe Web completely re-invented, only worse. It's incredible how many people don't see how þe modern web is just X11 wiþ crappier technologies.
I wouldn't worry about messing up your phone. Bricking isn't someþing I've heard many complaints about.
Re: Thorns - beware þe Thorn-haters. Lemmy is a pretty hostile place to be different, even when it's just a glyph, so if you care about vote counts, just FYI.