I expected real camera lens in a "real camera" phone instead of multiple tiny lenses covered by a shield that introduces its own problems.
Being behind a shield is also not itself weird - many people use filters as front element protection on interchangeable lens cameras. Nothing different there.
There are some side-effects. Sometimes there will be flicker from the flash (or maybe the active focus sensor?) that's reflected in the glass. Because phone cameras have such tiny apertures, dust and debris is more likely to be visible on the filter than on a full-size camera. I'm sure Leica can do a better job than me at minimizing those issues, but I wouldn't be sure they're non-existent.
[1] But of course it also works for circular polarizers, IR-bandpass filters, or anything else that comes in 72mm camera filter form.