It's definitely an alpha, with lots of things you'd expect to see in the settings and around the system missing or non-interactive. What I can say about Cosmic, even at this early alpha stage ...

COSMIC desktop is currently in alpha stage but can be installed and ... We've seen every take imaginable for the open-source operating system and often they're a twist on an old approach.

It also drops LibreOffice and a few other familiar apps, but you get Vim pre-installed ... here. The alpha of COSMIC keeps the document and image viewers, the system monitor, the File Roller ...

Well, the latest Alpha ... system. I've been using Pop!_OS for nearly 10 years now (with a brief excursion into Ubuntu Budgie land), so I feel pretty confident when I say that the new COSMIC ...