I keep seeing the same pattern. Vendor announces 10x faster, 90 percent cheaper, no code changes. Then you dig and its all design partners and "coming soon." We have a messy config, custom UDFs we inherited from someone who left, and dependencies nobody wants to touch. I want to believe hardware acceleration is real, but I have been burned before. Has anyone actually rolled something like this into production, warts and all, or is everyone still in pilot purgatory?