Hypothetical Pine Phone 2.0?

[ryo]

i'm still little pissed off lack of wifi ac. 2.4GHz is too congested. i activated 2.4GHz band just for pinephone.

for that internet browser, they have become memory hogs. some cases if i just shutdown a web browser, then all the cpu and ram waste goes away.

WiFi:
That's a good reason indeed.
Though I use the Ethernet cable through the dock while at home, but a phone not being a stationary desktop PC is a valid argument.

Browser:
From my own experimenting, you can lower the memory usage by a lot by using a browser without extension support, disabling JS, distrusting Cloudflare's SSL root certificate, using your PC's hosts file to block all the ads and analytics domains, along with all Google, Facebook, and Twitter owned domains.
It might (partially) break 95% of the whole normie internet/clearnet/censorweb (and 4% of the Tor, I2P, and Freenet internet, and 100% of the IPFS internet, and 1% of the Gopher, Gemini, and Finger internet), but the current internet can just die anyway (and I'm a web dev myself by the way).

It's not just the browser's fault, the problem lies on a lot of sides.
The use of MITM spyware like Cloudflare and Fastly, the use of CDNs (too lazy to self host resources), the use of Javascript (because normal websites are no longer cool apparently), way too many ads, analytics software, and all of that cause so much harm in the first place.

And I didn't even mention the "mobile-app-wanabee" web designs that force you scroll hours on a web page just to read 1 sentence you're looking for, even more unbearable if they use things like smooth scroll (because apparently there's something wrong with the normal scroll functionality?) and/or infinite scroll (because simply using pagination is no longer cool?).

I think the alternative to having developers support low end devices is that they just won't do it. They don't want to limit their apps/programs to what can be run on an outdated CPU with low RAM, they would rather just have it run however they want it to run which means that we don't get that app support anyway. Which is basically what we have right now.

If you're like me who run multiple apps at all times, then lightweight is the way to go even on a high end gaming PC.
I'm having a high end gaming PC (by 2015 definitions though), and I'm still careful about system resources and I still avoid soyware like a plague.
Because not everyone has the money to buy themselves a Core i21 processor with 512 PB of RAM and a 9000 Tbps internet connection just to find a recipe online.

It's perfectly possible to make highly advanced and good looking apps with minimal system resources, you just have to use ANSI C with some lightweight GUI library rather than Electron/Node/React/HTML5/CSS3/ES6 and than adding lots of telemetry on top of all the telemetry these libraries on their own already bring for example.