I really want Rocket to take off (no pun intended), but it reached v0.5-rc nearly a year ago, and has yet to even bump up to v0.5 proper. It's hard to feel conf

I really want Rocket to take off (no pun intended), but it reached v0.5-rc nearly a year ago, and has yet to even bump up to v0.5 proper. It's hard to feel confidence that it has the wings to be the future of Rust web given its current rate of development, which makes it hard to justify using in a work setting. Does anybody have more insight into its development status?