What are your current needs? What apps do you need/can’t do without? Everybody is different so it is difficult to answer your question. You can get an idea of which apps will or won’t work from this forum post:
As eOS ‘matures’ it won’t fundamentally change much I don’t think. Pretty much the same as any other OS, features come and go, bugs get eliminated, etc, etc. De-googling will continue, I’m sure.
If you were thinking of installing e (or any custom ROM) it would be worth investigating how to revert the device back to stock ROM at a later date. Just in case.
Here’s some pictures of e-recovery on Xperia xa2…
