[vtomole]

The graphs aren't telling you that QC hardware is not improving at a super-exponential pace?

There are no real world use cases today. The hardware is not advanced enough yet, but it's improving exponentially.

[iinnPP]

I think the point being made is that the graphs don't show real world applications progress. Being 99.9999999% or 0.000001% of the way to a useful application could be argued as no progress given the stated metric. Is there a guarantee that these things can and will work given enough time?

[vtomole]

> Is there a guarantee that these things can and will work given enough time?

Quantum theory predicts that they will work given enough time. If they don't work, there is something about physics that we are missing.