I had just replied to @simonw's comment about users with links to some blog posts & talks, and unfortunately now that this was made dupe, it appears the comment thread is truncated/removed? I suppose my only choice is to reach out to Simon on another platform to answer?

+1 on Jelte's sentiment, Marco's blog post about Citus 11 covered much more perspective and shared many more details than in the commit that was shared previously.