IMHO thats a bit blinkered, i have a deep interest in the field and the only mainstream publications on it clearly note there's no practical applications yet, and we're looking at a 5-10 year horizon of _maybe_ finding a niche application that actually improves with a handful of qubits
Contrast that with AI, which caused formation of new departments and hiring binges throughout industry, including industry far outside tech
And all those hordes of "AI" "engineers" are less useful than a few hundred statisticians. If the buzzwords get innumerate business types to invest in building models, that is great. I just wish they would let people use things that actually work and that a human can understand, like linear regression.
We have seen legitimate revolutions in natural language processing, computer vision, and games. Those things, however, are still a long way from being useful.
Personally, I've become convinced that AI is just an elaborate jobs program scheme thought up by washed out PhD students to bilk gullable venture capitalists out of endless amounts of money.
Contrast that with AI, which caused formation of new departments and hiring binges throughout industry, including industry far outside tech