True, but this is a major step up from what Timescale offered before. This was always my biggest contention since performance lagged behind many other datastore

True, but this is a major step up from what Timescale offered before. This was always my biggest contention since performance lagged behind many other datastores but they have done well in taking advantage of the Postgres integration and ecosystem. There are plenty of scenarios that benefit from having automatic time-based partitioning and querying within the same operational PG datastore instead of running a separate analytical system. The improved performance only helps this case.