> What makes Kong different?

I am specifically talking just about OSS functionality in the Kong Ingress Controller. It can assign weights to service backends.

And, FWIW, Insomnia 8.3 defaults to local projects (again)

https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/insomnia-8-3

Gateway API is a broad community standard governed by SIG Network - fingers crossed for various other implementations (including mesh) working their way to GA implementation-wise - this will make the standard stronger and the community more vibrant.