[ThePhysicist]

I actually did my PhD on superconducting quantum computing with Transmon qubits, so I really wouldn't say that I'm only "casually informed" about the subject.

Again, their digital adiabatic quantum computing relies on a gate-based quantum processor, which provides a universal set of qubits gates and thus can in principle simulate any Hamiltonian, quantum annealing is just an algorithm that runs on it.

And I don't want to be overly negative, but the perception of D-Wave in "more professional" circles was not very enthusiastic in my experience, which to a large extent is also D-Waves fault.