Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support

Bundle support in geometry nodes is huge for complex pipelines and workflows, particularly when combined with lists and closures. I have been running on the alpha builds to get access to them in my workflows. It took me a while to properly understand it, but it's genuinely great. It maps so much more of what I expect…

Every time I hear about Gaussian splatting, I think about triangle splatting[0] - GPUs were built to render triangles, so I wonder what games would be like if we supported generating and rendering them as much as we do Gaussian splats. [0] https://trianglesplatting.github.io/

For those who use Blender for work, how far are models like Astra away from using Blender to create something good enough at a junior, senior level?