As a phone, all cell phones are terrible. In the wired-phone era companies used to advertise on call quality. Nobody does that any more because the quality of cell phone calls is so abysmal that text with (or without frankly) emojis is an order of magnitude better for communication.
If they made pads the size of my phone that could still use cell network internet and that I could put a custom OS on I'd consider it.
People who never experienced a really good connection when no more than a little of the phone & switching network was digitized, surely have no idea what they're missing. I've never once heard a call since that era that was as good—VOIP, Zoom, cell network, modern POTS network, whatever.
If they made pads the size of my phone that could still use cell network internet and that I could put a custom OS on I'd consider it.