I can only reach the "meh" level of enthusiasm. RK3588 was released in 2022 and AFAIK it still doesn't have video decoding acceleration in mainline kernel/mesa/ffmpeg.
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Maybe also worth mentioning that the rk3588 uses Cortex A76 cores, which arm announced in 2018, so this was a 4 year old design at time of release. At this pace it seems to take the better part of a decade to get an arm core out & generally usable.
I really really hope some of this video encoding work helps lay some foundation for further mainline vpus to be easier. I bought a cute small rk3566 board hoping to make a cheap low power wifi video transmitter, and of course it requires a truly prehistoric vendor provided kernel to take advantage of the vpu, alas. Scant hope for this ever improving but maybe some decade drivers won't be a scythian nightmare.
Its nice seeing a second player come to the GPU/video space at least. Imagination GPU's are in the new Pixel phone! And a bunch of various designs here & there. Maybe they can get religion & work a little harder than others have at up streaming. There were some promising early mainlineings, but I've not seeing much in kernelnewbies release logs for a while now: troubling silence.