completely bricked?

[fxc]

A dozen times is what is disconcerting. I do want Pine to succeed. I do. I would also feel better if I recovered this phone. I will do my best to do just that.

It's not disconcerting, bugs at this early stage are completely fine and expected. In the months after the early adopters batch was flashed multiple bugs were fixed and/or the cause was found, including the boot loop you're experiencing (u-boot patches for Manjaro expected soon), suspend causing the phone to hang and other similar bugs, so the development is quite healthy and progress exceeding even my own expectation.