This was my impression too and it looks like they've made really impressive progress since I last saw them on HN. Their bug list [0] looks kind of scary, but that's maybe par for the course for a language? I remember the bad old days of Go's 32-bit GC not being wonderful for example.
[0]: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+lab...