The best way to articulate that criticism is to quote me (or at least paraphrase Daniel Lidar) and say: "We have quantum information processing, but no compute

The best way to articulate that criticism is to quote me (or at least paraphrase Daniel Lidar) and say: "We have quantum information processing, but no computers as of yet." And, that which we already have is so-darned-expensive; that it is less useful than classical computation unless you are building some exotic kind of sensor.