Pretty much everything you read (especially when aimed at a non-expert audience) about quantum computing in the media is "easy-to-mediatize" information only.

Pretty much everything you read (especially when aimed at a non-expert audience) about quantum computing in the media is "easy-to-mediatize" information only. People building these things are trying to oversell their achievements while carefully avoiding making them easy to check, reproduce, or objectively compare to others. It's hard to objectively evaluate even for people who work in the field but haven't worked on the exact technology platform reported on. Metrics are taylored to marketing goals, for example, IBM made up a performance metric called "quantum volume", only to basically stop using it when it seemed to no longer favour them. That being said, it's also undeniable that quantum computing is making significant progress, error correction being a major milestone. What this ends up being actually used for, if anything, remains to be seen (I'm rather sure we'll find something).