It might be your bias, or even mine, but in my opinion, what you and I are saying are pretty much the same...
There is not much actual difference between "I heard here and there that some exotic glorified home tablet thingy is running it" and
"There are multiple devices that have shipped with Fuchsia on it in the home ecosystem over the last 5 years".
Would love to hear where it was actually used, searching for it, I really only found a handful of examples.
I was an active Flutter community member and it was driving me crazy how people would say "Flutter is great because Fuchsia also uses Flutter", and all I thought "show me one person who is using Fuchsia at this whole conference / meetup".
You can go to a normal store and buy a device using fuchsia today, it's just not advertising that is the OS under the hood. That is why I do not think what you said is the same thing.
I don't necessarily think it's going to be a major success, but it's already been more successful than this implies.
(Bias, was on the Fuchsia team many moons ago)