I'm actually not that surprised you gained an audience. From where I sit, it looks to me like the last few years has seen a resurgence in what it means to have an operating system. From the Cosmic project led by System76 to the Redox project, there seems to be a renewed interest in a field that I thought had largely become one of incremental change.
Good for you and good luck. I saw other posts about people expressing interest in moving GodotOS beyond conceptual demonstration to functional system. That has to be very exciting!