@elliotjmackness Thanks to libhybris, there are much more devices supported by SFOS than the ones mentionned on their website. You can run most of the cli apps available on Linux.
Libhybris is free and is exploited by the other Linux OS for smartphones to run on them.
About running apps on Linux, there is waydroid (free too). Furylabs has an heavely patched waydroid version for a better integration into Droidian, and it works very well. Also Droidian can run native Linux apps
There is everything you are looking for this days, and it works very well. The FLX1 (Droidian + Waydroid from Furylab) has a very good battery life, VoLTE (main issue for Linux phones, calls over LTE isn't as standardized than with GSM).
"Hopefully someone with the knowhow and ambition can take Sailfish to where it needs to. At this time, its not an option."
Why not you ? ;)