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The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP
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It's hard enough getting some companies to develop Android apps (not to mention the Android watch OS has barely anything) as much as I'd like to see a Linux phone OS catch on, unless there is some kind of Proton-layer for Android thing I just don't see any companies making apps for it.
I don't make Android apps because the environment is a treadmill - constantly requiring app updates to run on the newer OSs. I have not (yet) experienced the same forced obsolescence in any of the Linux flavors - apps I wrote 20 years ago still compile and run without mods, just relink to the latest libraries and go.
Android is already routinely emulated on PCs for purposes of development. As it's open source, it's certainly easier to develop a compatibility layer for it than for Windows (if such a thing doesn't already exist).
We used to say the same thing about Windows. Then smartphones and tablets caught on and we saw: actually, we can port apps to new operating systems and develop new ones for them.
ATL (Android Translation Layer) and Waydroid.