I'm kind of at a loss on how to make the jump to Linux Phones right now because there are some Android Apps that are absolutely vital at the moment and I don't think they can run reliably on any Linux distros?

I might end up setting up an emulation environment on one and seeing how it goes...

Which apps? SailfishOS can run Android apps decently well. I'm guessing some will have issues though.

The apps are just the second layer. The first layer is hardware compatibility. Even the best supported phones have spotty gps, mic and cam usability

FR FR, I think most Linux distros such as Ubuntu Touch are just running a stripped down Android software called "Halium" as a layer between the phone drivers and the OS.

Which of course leads to questions about maintainability now that the AOSP doesn't provide device trees.

idk, comparing the Linux phone usage to war might not be the best idea

You could always use Waydroid as an emulator for whatever Android apps you can't do without

war against google

SailfishOS runs Android apps on officially supported devices, and even then, that's still a compatibility/emulation layer, for the rest of us, Waydroid is the Way to go (pun absolutely intended)

The problem is some apps need attestation, this is notable for some banking apps. Waydroid being an image-based implementation, means you can technically have GApps (or prefferably MicroG) on your Android layer, and that can help in most cases.