I have used this when it was still pretty new. I already liked it a lot more than Hyprland. Dev was very responsive and friendly. The combination of tiling and scrolling is very cool!
Some nice alternatives listed that I didn't know about!
For navigation I can recommend MapFactor Navigator. Based in Prague. They have paid subscriptions for traffic data and some other stuff like online search. Well worth it in my opinion.
My biggest problem with AI is that currently it is a very shitty tool that outputs nonsense 9 out of 10 times while big tech pretends it is totally awesome, which like you say, makes it being forced on you even more frustrating.
Is it here to stay? Yes I believe so. But it needs a lot of work in a lot of area's to be truly useful.
How would it feel to spend an insane amount of money that doesn't really exist.