Linear scaling DFT is something way more impactful than room-temperature superconductors. What's next? "Hey, I've used my FTL spaceship to verify the material at those friendly alien's library"?

The fact that there has been no Nobel prize and we didn't spend a week around the web arguing "yes, it works!", "no, didn't work for me", "yes, I verified it!" highly implies that the site is trying to say something different than what we are understanding.