Well yes, but the point of these mobile devices is pretty often in these features enabled by the binary blobs. Yes, I can probably use it for many things, just as I can use just about any device that I can load a linux kernel and basic userland on; provided it has a serial port that I can connect to. However many people are not satisfied with a device that might be missing these features;graphical display touchscreen input (well if it has a physical keyboard then no problem) sound output microphone input WLAN connectivity Bluetooth connectivity 2G/3G/4G/5G connectivity USB connectivity any sensors (compass, acceleration, orientation, ...) NFC haptic feedback ... Almost all of these require some kind of binary driver or loadable firmaware blob that you need to rip off from Android to enable and make use of.
And besides, the point of Replicant is to be "Android without proprietary code" as I understood it. But why would someone want to have an Android clone is something I don't understand; Android is bad in many ways; it is slow, unreliable, java-oriented, ugly, uncomprehensible, noncomplient, difficult and developer-unfriendly. If I have to choose between something that resembles Android and does not work and something that has binary blobs underneath but provides a real GNU userland, what do you think I will choose?