Open RAN Engineers - Prime-Time Readiness

Is the telecom industry sleeping on Open RAN or is it genuinely not ready for prime time? Been following the Open RAN space for a while and honestly can't tell if we're close to a real inflection point or still years away from meaningful deployment at scale. The pitch is great — disaggregated hardware, vendor diversity, lower costs, no more being locked into Ericsson or Nokia for everything. But every operator I read about doing serious Open RAN trials still seems to run into the same walls: integration complexity, performance gaps vs traditional RAN, and a vendor ecosystem that's still pretty fragmented. The US has been pushing it hard (especially post-FCC/CHIPS Act funding), and some Tier 1s are quietly expanding pilots. But outside of Rakuten and a few greenfield operators, I haven't seen anyone go all-in at scale. Curious what people here think: Is Open RAN actually getting traction in your market or still mostly hype? Do you think it realistically displaces traditional RAN in the next 5 years for major carriers? Or is this just becoming the "5G of network architecture" — always 2 years away from being ready? Would love to hear from people actually working in the space, not just analyst reports.