The current crappiness of AR reminds me of the early days of MP3 players. Only a few geeks had them, and it took forever to load an album over the printer port if it didn't crash half way. Then 5 years later, everyone had an iPod.
I wasn't in a particularly affluent or tech-savvy area. It was cheap to buy and just required you to know how to move files from one drive to the other in a computer - which was a skill that was very common and was actually taught at schools in my area.
It was a product of is time with one hit feature of huge space and decent battery life for that. At a significant markup.
Does ARKit have a killer feature at all? Even one, compared to competition?
Have you seen any (online or offline) discussion about those? Of course people have strong opinions on them.