My comment did sound way more aggressive than I intended, and I apologize for that, but getting this defensive as an answer when the question asked for an opinion definitely isn’t any less pathetic. I have a lot of respect on the work of the Pop team, and Pop was the first distro I have used, but none of your points are… good?
Forge replicates most of Pop’s tiling capabilities, picking up the great work your team did over the years without intending to drop it for your own thing;
Performance is something that isn’t necessarily lacking in other DEs and stable is a bold statement for a product still in alpha. Hopefully it really is whenever it gets a stable release though, I’m not rooting against your work;
Also, it isn’t hard to say your app store is the fastest when it doesn’t have the years of crust other ones gathered from all the work put into it. I would get worried if it wasn’t.