It could be there's ways to carefully invest government money in private industry- maybe that's the possible, and there's a conversation somewhere on how to do that in a fair, stable, and equitable way.
What we've got, on the other hand, is a series of actions designed to maximize the amount of profit gained from direct market manipulation on a national scale using the richest federal government on the planet.
Sure we can talk about making the quantum computing mechanisms less error-prone, and we can expand on the application space... But the real story here is one of international sovereign market manipulation and corruption.