It’s like saying GPS was available for decades before, why would putting it in everyone’s phone expand its popularity.
For myself, I’m hoping the nerds and hackers that otherwise found it not worth the effort will start creating tools to manage real time better and start building them into the applications they write. That way you don’t need to pay an arm and a leg to RedHawk for the privilege of dynamically isolating CPUs or have to reboot the computer to modify kernel arguments a la RedHat MRG.
People who wanted GPS were also already using it by buying TomToms or other GPS devices…
The average desktop user already benefits from the changes the RT folks have slowly been getting into the baseline.