It's huge and because of that, it's not in the same category as a normal phone. If it had been sold as that, that would be one thing, but it wasn't.
I bought an MNT Reform laptop knowing it won't look like a normal laptop- that's fine. But if they had shown something that looked like a Dell XPS 13 and then shipped something that looks like the MNT Reform does, I'd be just as upset.
> usable kill switches
Physical kill switches, not usable. I believe the Pinephone also has software kill switches which function much the same way.
> running fully free software
Yes, no binary blobs is good, but that doesn't change the issue of the form factor making it unusable.