closing apps rather than leaving them running (phosh)

[arcanemachine]

Are we, the people who paid for these phones, the community that is supposed to fix these issues?

Yes, that is exactly the case.

Pine64 doesn't make Phosh (it was made by Purism, the company that makes Librem phones and computers), they don't make any of the distros (all community efforts). They don't make any of the software. They provide that hardware, and that's pretty much it.