Yeah the lack of an app store is fine for the first year.
But the requirement for everyone to have an ipad or iphone on 27.2 or later (for full functionality) seems more of a showstopper. I would have been in the market for one but haven’t even bothered to upgrade past iOS 18 yet.
I doubt that people who are still running an OS version from two years ago are a significant potential market for this.
27 is really good. Worth the upgrade.
Disclosure: I work at Apple. But that’s also my honest opinion.