Never used an N9, or Sailfish on anything other than a Jolla...

In general I think it feels more 'shiny' than Sailfish, but under the glitter Sailfish makes more sense, but that may be just me being stuck in a 'desktop full of icons' mindset. I hate the unity desktop on my various PCs too, they all have cinnamon or gnome fallback or similar.

I can forgive it missing features, and bugs, as I do/did the Jolla when that came out. Likewise the slow startup of phone and messaging apps - these are things that every user will hate and I'm sure they'll get fixed.

I make much fewer typos with the vkb than I do on Jolla, that may be just down to screen size. I hate typing on the Jolla vkb because my fat fingers get in the way... my TOHKBD hasn't arrived yet