So you can have a portable device with a larger screen than your phone? For general media consumption?

Using them? I can understand not getting cracked screens but I think avoiding scratches entirely especially across multiple phones would be a significant feat unless you just really baby your phones.

No it doesn’t. Also you can just relock the bootloader. Google doesn’t care.

I think that’s Samsung. The Pixels don’t have a fuse AFAIK.

Well depends on why you’re unlocking the bootloader. Some people just want root but not necessarily a custom ROM. Though for some phones a custom ROM may be more appealing than others.

Lets say I wanted a distro with more bleeding edge packages but not something DIY like Arch, what would you recommend?

We can already interact with our friends and family anywhere we choose

Well not exactly. The person posting chooses the platform and then other people have to go to said platform. If someone doesn’t like platform X and prefers Y then they have to convince others to also switch to Y. This happened with instant messengers and it happens with chat applications.