> Plus, he seems to have, I dunno, great "taste"
This. I feel something similar. It is kind of way things are arranged, the simple layout of repository, or that on average zig src file has ~500 lines of code (for Swift/Rust, it is 65/80 respectively). So yes, it is all subjective. I also feel as if zig is like more time/money is spent on books and not on bookshelves.
Andy Kelley has been doing a lot of development very publicly (check Zig's issue tracker!) and I feel I've gotten some value just out of watching his process unfold, in terms of community interaction, prioritization of features, brief exploratory experiments, etc.
Plus, he seems to have, I dunno, great "taste" in language design (though I realize this is very subjective), so maybe Zig will end up somewhere great.