It seems to me it never took off which I partly blame on the direction. It's beautiful but a bit too simple and I had a locked in feeling I haven't felt before while using Linux (to the contrary in fact). As long as I remained within the ecosystem it was fine, but otherwise it was like jumping off a cliff. That strains the ecosystem and emphasizes available software a lot. How fun the OS is to use becomes a factor of everything besides the OS.

I couldn't really use it like that and I didn't need to anymore either as GNOME had caught up and I'm now a happy Fedora + GNOME user. It also shares a "simple" and macOS like design language/goals, but with many advantages from technical, development backing, and community size standpoints.