I don't doubt RISC-V can be used to make powerful cores but adoption as a general purpose CPU (rather than MCU) will need more than good numbers.

There's still a missing piece in the RISC-V ecosystem: a coordination body of platform-level standards. Debian took a stand with RVA23 support but then there's a ton of little things that are taken for granted on the PC platform such as UEFI and ACPI (as horrible as they may be).