Another lens to view QC is with regard to development of modern CPUs.

A very very brief history:

Relating to QC tech, we would be somewhere around 1951 or so....that is we have some lab produced qubits but haven't yet got the qubit to a commercial state.

This is really just the start of the race, after "commercial qubits" we still need to figure out how to make them smaller and smaller so that they can be dense enough (1M quibits?) to perform useful work.

As Hossenfelder says: "We need 1M qubits and we are still about 1M qubits away...."

Now there is another aspect (that they hardly ever talk about) and that is software. Do we actually have algorithms that work on QC? So far the proof-of-concepts algos have each be proven that classical computers could do as well....the one example they've produced of a actual QC algo was a pointless result....meaning while it was strictly technically true that they way in which it performed the task was faster than a classical CPU, you could in fact perform the task much faster using a classical CPU just using a different procedure.

As an analogy, suppose I said I invented a house painting robot that could automatically paint a house in 148 hours....and I pointed out that there was no other automated process that could achieve that. That might strictly be true, but it fails to acknowledge that a single workman with a roller brush can probably paint the house in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the money.....