The criticism is that it isn't React, and that nobody uses it but eBay.
There's nothing really wrong with it other than that there's no reason for it to exist when other frameworks work fine and have community traction. There's nothing special about eBay that requires it's own special UI framework.
And when we hire contractors to do anything they won't touch Marko so we have to use React anyway on a lot of projects.
Just not an efficient way to spend the companys money creating and maintaining a superfluous framework nobody asked for.
I have used Pop_os for the last year; it has enough bugs and wasted enough of my time that I finally switched to Windows just to see if I can put up with it; I'll probably revert to Ubuntu in a few months. WSL2 makes windows more livable but it's still janky.
I'm a nerd but that doesn't mean I have time to mess with bugs.
This seems like the kind of insight that is better monetized than preached - the value will not be perceived until there is a business success that derived from it.
Federal employees and contractors are subject to regular and random urinalysis.
Until marijuana is legalized at the federal level (which has been passed by the house but is not yet law) you could be terminated for marijuana.
Furthermore, it was published 11 months ago, it's not a new release.