This was my first taste of mobile Linux, and pmOS was easily the best distro I used on it in terms of documentation, install tools, performance, and package selection. pmOS has the advantage of being more mature than other mobile Linux distros, but all the work they've put in over the years has really paid off and helped make the ecosystem more viable, so thank you!
I'm really sad to learn about this with Pine64, I had a hint of this when I saw there has never been a second batch of pinetabs and no communication about it (at least that I saw). I had no idea it was this bad though and this makes zero sense why they would kill the ecosystem they spent so long building. It sounds like the decision was made purely based on reducing user support requests? Even though someone that buys one of these is likely to be a tinkerer/hacker with prior experience with *nix and distros already have their own community support channels and would already be doing most of that work for free?