Although this project successfully attract TVL by the billions of dollars I think this project will be underwhelming, because it will be like blast, despite huge TVL locked for the project, the market cap only around $200mln because the narrative of L2 and governance token just doesn't really work anymore, people figured out that there are simply too many L2 that these L2 token doesn't really hold value.
moreover for staker of Zircuit and me included, won't yield too much of a reward out of it, because lets be real, the long winding staking campaign and the fact that most of TVL coming from restaked token means it's at best inflated TVL and the token distribution will be diluted as heck.
You are right that Zircuit (ZRC) might not perform so well like Zksync, Blast and L3 because the management of these projects didn't reward their community so well who supported these project by investing their time and money during the testing and pre-launch phase. The reward distribution was unfair and it was not across the board. I think this was the main reason behind its price drop after the launching. How ZRC tokens performs after lunch will largely depend community is satisfaction and strength of utility token.