It's a shame and I agree that any work done should not be lost in terms of schematics, design concepts such as modem isolation etc. Unfortunately as we all know, it's a common issue made worse by being a niche market.

I really want to see FxTec succeed. It's the closest we've got to N900, N9, N950, (prototype whose name I forgot) in a long time. Same with Purism, I really like the libhandy concept and running on Wayland opens possibilities such as Vulkan using libhybris to enable GTK4. I would love to see Leste run on both but, as my previous experiments show, I'm interested to see where it could go in terms of newer UI/ updated look and feel once it becomes stable and more feature complete.

Joerg_rw, it would be great to see some of your input in a smaller, stress free project.