I do absolutely despise the complexity of administering modern distributed systems, hence my attempt to make Pollen as ergonomic and (as much as I hate to use this term) batteries-included as possible.

I've not come across either of those projects, oddly. I have a tendency to avoid looking for similar projects during the development of my own, lest I get despondent and run out of steam. Both sound cool, though. I'd say WASM was a natural workload "type" that fit nicely into what I was trying to achieve with Pollen, rather than a driving factor, if you know what I mean.