Vinyl? No, not at all. Pressing the platter is already the lossy part, playing has less dynamic range. Some just like the mechanical part and scratching noises better.
Yes. Multiple historical layers, each giving the creators way too much power over presentation, while they are still supposed to handle stuff like accessibility themselves, making a company webpage a thousand manhours project. Browsers being monoliths is only one page of the book.
How do you write Google Chrome, and all of it's dependencies, in one page of code?
In my humble opinion, you shouldn't be allowed to participate in big projects if you don't fulfill some minimal requirements.
Reminds me of the crack i had to explain the concept of technical debt. He was the main maintainer of a years old Xamarin project, he took over from his precursor.
Onyx are Androids. But you should debloat/silence them a bit before, same as Kindle/any vendor Droid. And batterx life is not that great.
PocketBook have a more limited app selection (though there's a Nextcloud app) and their SDK is old. But they're running pure Linux and are excellent in openness and battery life.
I took a Onyx instead of a Kobo, because Kobo are locked down Androids. Though they are quite open in supported formats too.
Everybody seems to know about that guy, but still...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir