Shameless plug: But these types of areas of research (what types of problems can quantum computers solve and when) has been a big focus of our open-source Q# ef

Shameless plug: But these types of areas of research (what types of problems can quantum computers solve and when) has been a big focus of our open-source Q# effort lately. You can see our last two blog posts (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/) are about the resource estimation features we've recently built for exactly this purpose. You can give them a try pretty easily in VS Code or just in the browser (https://aka.ms/AQ/RE/Docs https://aka.ms/AQ/RE/Docs) Disclaimer: I work on the Q# project (https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp) in a team under Matthias Troyer (quoted in the article). Entirely personal option: I do think tempering some of the hype of the past few years/decades and focusing on the areas of highest potential is in general a good thing. Progress hasn't been what some optimists had hoped for, but hardware has been progressing quite quickly & consistently for years now, and I'm confident we'll get there eventually.