@FediTips I understand not wanting to overwhelm people; certainly, any attempt to be comprehensive would be inappropriate for your purposes.
But I'm not a particularly advanced social media user, and I didn't arrive at the decision to switch from Tusky to Pachli by attempting a comprehensive survey of Mastodon apps in an effort to find the "best" app. I was motivated by an experience just about any new user could have: I found that Tusky lacked a feature I considered basic, simple, and necessary; I looked around for an app that had that feature; I switched to the first one I found (Pachli), and I've stuck with it ever since.
I wanted to be able to navigate away from a post I was writing, copy something, navigate back to my post, and paste in the copied material. To my consternation, I discovered that in Tusky, attempting to do that resulted in losing all my work up to that point. That's bad! Pachli met all my basic social media needs; Tusky did not. I've since then heard that Pachli is basically a fork of Tusky with some glaring bugs fixed. And I heard from the maintainers of Pachli that, simple and basic as the feature I wanted might seem to an end-user, some quite sophisticated programming had been necessary to make it work. Regardless, it was needed.
I suspect many, many other Mastodon users are likely to feel the same way. And I feel your "short list" of Android apps should include at least one app that has this feature — if not Pachli, then some other. But Pachli, as a Tusky fork, looks like a reasonable choice. I agree 100% that comprehensiveness isn't an appropriate goal for your list. But this isn't about comprehensiveness, it's about adequacy — and if one of the best-known apps really isn't adequate, it would make sense to include at least one or two better ones.