When I was commuting 2 hours a day on the bus, my daily driver was an 8-inch iPad that I used with a logitec keyboard case tethered to my iPhone for internet, and would connect to my VSCode on my $10/mo droplet using Code-Server.

If you offload the computer to the cloud, and don't need to do anything graphically intense, it makes daily driving an underpowered tablet very easy.

I mean, I keep a 10 year old MacBook in my kitchen/dining room. If someone were still actually making a high-end Chromebook that would be fine. Unfortunately with Google's departure from doing that hardware, it's all pretty much lower-priced educational market stuff and if I really needed a lightweight travel device, I'd get a tablet (which I did recently) or a MacBook Air. MacBooks are low enough maintenance that a good high-res Chromebook wouldn't really be enough cheaper or lighter to really buy you much.