Germany's trying to decarbonize its electricity sector via renewables while having poorer onshore wind resources than the US. And much poorer solar resources. And much higher population density. And it's retiring nuclear power at the same time. Finally, it started deploying solar PV by the gigawatt in 2007 (!), when the equipment was very expensive compared to now[1]. Germany is attempting decarbonization on Nightmare Mode difficulty, so I find it impressive that they're actually making progress. It's also frustrating because they're giving up several years of forward progress on emissions by shutting down working nuclear reactors.
It's doubly annoying that Germany's determination to pioneer solar has provided a canned "bad example" for solar foes elsewhere. "Look how expensive solar made German electricity. I don't want that disaster in Texas." Of course new Texan solar plants will never cost as much as German plants built last decade, and they'll get far more sunlight. But that's not as pithy as "just look at Germany!"
[1] Germany's pioneering large-scale PV deployment may well have been a driver for the much larger, much more economical PV manufacturing base that exists today. It's still surprising to me that solar didn't first grow big in somewhere much sunnier like Australia.