I'm in the same boat. I'd also love to be wrong. It feels like we forget quickly that we already have nuclear power around. And yet fission constantly suffers

I'm in the same boat. I'd also love to be wrong. It feels like we forget quickly that we already have nuclear power around. And yet fission constantly suffers due to economics issues, stemming from needing to build massive plants full of steel and concrete, each facility being effectively bespoke, requiring fancy equipment and electronics, needing constant monitoring, having to plan to decommission an irradiated plant and dispose of radioactive waste, and... needing to mine and refine uranium. Fusion would (maybe, unless we need helium-3) solve that last one, and only sorta solve the radioactive waste one. Everything else remains, perhaps even gets worse. Still good to see people working on it, maybe it'd be useful for far-future spaceships or areas where solar/wind aren't feasible. But I don't see how it wins economically at large.