They are also working on a more full-fledged desktop mode in Android 16 QPR 1. Obviously, you can also plug a keyboard, phone, and external monitor. Pixel 8 and 9 support DP-Alt.
I am not sure why VT100 emulation is relevant in this context. Removing it will break a lot of existing Unix/Linux terminal applications and the point of this emulator is to bring the wealth of existing applications (as well as X11/Wayland applications) to Android.
Which naturally requires being a Pixel phone, and not something that works across the ecosystem.
Exactly because we should stop dragging UNIX all over place, and embrace new computing models, the world already has enough UNIX clones always redoing the same stuff over and over again, as if Lion's book had been published last week.
I am not sure why VT100 emulation is relevant in this context. Removing it will break a lot of existing Unix/Linux terminal applications and the point of this emulator is to bring the wealth of existing applications (as well as X11/Wayland applications) to Android.