Well that's not true for me at least. I'm not moving across from one smartphone to another, I'm moving from one Linux system to another. I'm only interested in the N900 because it's a (fairly) open Linux machine, and from some of the coverage and commenting on Linux news sites I doubt I'm the only one.

Edit: In any case, both having the phone die on package updates, and having apt behave differently to the GUI updater, are pretty clearly bugs.