And they managed: the JP26 has been a great success. With thousands of new users, and despite manufacturing problems (missing camera gasket, failed I3C board), we only got very few critical posts ( mostly this one: Great new Jolla phone and new users - no go! )
I can think of 1 post who criticised the UI (the post above), and 1 person said they sell the phone because they figured out they depend a lot on google ecosystem.