"These people here are the very pure essence of fanboyism."

I can agree I am very passionate about the n900, it does all the things I want it to, and to me in a great way.
But for "fanboyism" you better have a look at the iNerds, they are very good at that. Being out of touch is their specialty. They are behaving way more extreme than the maemo people (I'd say the maemo community is more like a linux/unix community in general, rather than phone fanatics).

People can buy whatever they want, whatever concept suits them best. I don't really care that much, its their money spent, but for my purposes I know that there is nothing around that can handle the things that the n900 do. I have searched for an alternative but I'm rather sad to see that there is nothing on the market like this anymore.

Frapp.. :

I can't see the problems with the things you mention. The difference is that you are probably the type of person that's more locked in on commercial alternatives (personally I don't trade any shares using my phone so I have no idea about that). There are also plenty better alternatives to whatsapp, but if you and your friend are locked into that and that is you medium, well then I guess n900 is not for you. Maybe we are just people with different ideology and search for different things.

I can do banking just fine with the browser, and I don't find it clunky at all so I don't know what you mean there, maybe you bank is clunky.

For office like applications I use "Word to go"/"Sheet to go"/"Slideshow to go" suite and it works just fine, yes its commercial but don't come say there are no alternatives on the n900.

There is really nothing wrong with free and open source projects. Its hard to find arguments why anyone would see that in a negative sense. When it comes to tablet and phone product development, you more than well should know that there are other things causing problems than just the fact that it is free and open software.