Agree. Are they trying to compete with Android? Hopefully it works out but consider me skeptical

Absolutely. This reminds me of Nostr vs Holepunch. Even though they are different things, the Nostr protocol was released early with improvement possibilities, that invited tons of users & developers and grew like wildfire. Whereas Holepunch (and Fedimint in this case) are too protected by a company/organization and they don't seem to get as much grassroot traction