- KaiOS is not noticeably less ‘smart’ than Jolla. They’ve chosen to aim downmarket, but that is not a technical limitation.
- Sailfish is also ‘almost dead.’ Jolla isn’t even a company any more, just a brand name rescued from the flames of Rostelecom investment. It’s a series of Kickstarter projects with mixed results.
Having used Sailfish and also literally all of the alternatives I mentioned, several of them (particularly UBPorts and PostmarketOS) are at least as good as Sailfish. An ancient Oneplus 6 running Phosh on PostmarketOS is a better successor to the Nokia N9 than anything Jollyboys has in the hopper.