Sure. What will you do if the CEO of Tuta says something positive about a Trump appointment? Do you apply similarly stringent standards in every purchasing decision?
More to the point, was what Andy Yen said really that bad?
That's weird. Ubuntu has two tracks, the standard that gets updated every six months and the LTS track that updates every two years. I think the developers recommend the LTS versions, and it's the version I see that tends to get better corporate support. But even on LTS you can find some oddities sometimes I suppose.
I don't really see why it's such a dealbreaker for so many. Hardly any phones have 3.5mm, and for those that don't, you can just put a dongle on the end of your existing wired headphones.
If it has an AMD GPU you can just install it now, no waiting. But it's not good at much more than just playing games, if you want a more general purpose machine I'd install something mainstream like Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora.
You're more likely to get a price like that in CEX or Back market, with the added bonus that it's ethical to reuse second hand.