Congratulations on the visit to Roosevelt Island! I hope you kept cool in the heat. When I grew up, we only ever called the power plant big Alice (no one ever spelled out "Allis" that I can recall), so thanks for looking into that!
If you think about it, preserving rain forests is free! Reforesting them only requires a few dedicated people, some seeds, and some time. The hard part is stopping people from fucking them up to make such small amounts of money.
I couldn't use the current alpha as a daily driver because I didn't see a supported/intended way to manage starting and maintaining my ssh-agent upon login. Besides that, it felt good enough that I'd use it for more than a few days if I could.
The work on cosmic is proceeding and as far as I know when cosmic is done, 24.04 will be released. In the mean time 22.04 still gets updates.