It's a lot better than things apparently used to be, but what CHERI really needs to develop a grassroots is a board that runs CheriBSD ( https://www.cheribsd.org/ ) and is actually available for a few hundred US dollars cash down, not a board of which you can apply to, maybe, have a single unit eventually allocated to you if you are deemed worthy. Even taking for granted that they only have a small supply which has to be allocated on a non-commercial basis for now, they should be beating down the doors of guys like Jeff Geerling and Wendell Wilson from Level1Techs and thrusting eval boards in their hands, not sitting on their throne waiting to hear entreaties.