Well, their additions to Gnome in PopOS have been very well received. So..maybe. The "power user" space (especially the non-cli oriented one) is really lacking out-of-the-box solutions rn.
It wouldn't be the first time tailored software drove hardware sales.
Considering this is a tiling window manager, rather high Id say.
Im a power user, so to say, and Ive been using pop shell for about 6-9 months now. I love not having to write my own scripts to do the most basic tasks in sway anymore.
Things like my calendar works throughout the desktop without me having to wrangle various things.
It wouldn't be the first time tailored software drove hardware sales.