they have nice cameras. but the battery life is attrocious and sometimes will run into radio issues (iirc fixed only one or 2 generations ago)... lack of otp support is also one minor issue
Chromebooks are amazing for a certain type of low technical skill person. Older parents and grandparents in particular are exactly the kind of people that Chromebooks are for. There's zero technical support burden and if anything goes wrong a power wash solves it.
Oh I totally recommend Chromebooks, they almost entirely eliminate the tech support burden from having a parent/grandparent who doesn't get computers. It was the dude above me who crapped on them.
Chromium is about 99.5% open source, there's no real problem with the OS itself. If you're afraid of Google tracking just use the machine with the guest account.
I got a bundle of a Razer keyboard, mouse, headset, and mousepad for all of $50 one time cause it was on sale and we just happened to come across the last one they had. This was about a year ago, because I was needing new ones anyway, and they've been perfectly fine ever since.