I have been using a Chromebook and like how simple and affordable it is for everyday tasks. Do you prefer a Chromebook or a traditional laptop?
Your average day is very different than mine.
But I’d say that the biggest stance for against Chromebooks is philosophical: are you for or against disposable PC? And I’ve bought a Framework for a very simple reason: I’ll never have to replace my main laptop ever again, much like my desktop of Theseus that’s seen upgrades whenever something broke but I never had to buy a new desktop to replace it.
And “simple” is also very subjective. To me, the simplest way to do something on a computer involves some Bash incantations that 98% of the population would think as the most convoluted way to the do same thing.
I still have a broken Google Pixelbook Go. It’s battery died and is unrepairable, everything is glued shut. Never buy those again.
For what it’s worth, Intel Chromebooks are among the most hackable standard PC hardware devices available on the market today. They run a fork of Coreboot and reflashing them is well documented, which somewhat guarantees that they will have a longer term of firmware support than most laptops. There’s even a popular open source UEFI firmware for them.
I wouldn’t count them as being as disposable as they might appear at first glance. At least, “software longevity”-wise!