They should've paid for this to be on the radio instead
You raise valid points and thank you for the detailed answer. It's a shame wasm isn't hardware accelerated, is that because of security or is it simply not implemented yet? (i can google this but I'm just wondering.) I agree that being able to call on a web browser is perhaps less necessary because of the phone having to be linked anyway, but it still would be nice to have :)
If you want you can try OnlyOffice, it works really well as a replacement for Office. That is if you only use Word, Excel and Powerpoint. I even convinced some Windows people to use it as its free, open source, cross platform and perhaps even easier to use at this point.
For Picasa maybe digikam? It maybe isn't a perfect replacement though. You could always try to run Picasa in a VM (or maybe even wine?)
Don't Google and Facebook (and maybe Redhat?) also contribute a lot to open source software? I get that stuff like chromium and android is open source but not really free as in freedom but you can't deny they do contribute somewhat.
Genuinely interested in what people think about, maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture.