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Disclaimer: I haven't tried it in a while so I can't speak to the current quality of COSMIC and Pop!_OS 24.04
But no, I am not surprised it's taken them this long. They started almost from scratch, made an entire Desktop Environment basically from scratch, using only the basic Iced for rendering and building their own equivalent of GTK/Qt. Libcosmic is massive undertaking and I have been worried about them.
But it has enormous potential: they know how to do tiling and styling very well, and Rust makes it hard not to write secure performant code.
I admire their bravery and perseverance and have faith that COSMIC will eventually be amazing.
And I'll buy my next laptop from them to support them.