Open AI Gym: What do you think about the Reinforcement Learning toolkit and its evaluation methods? • /r/MachineLearning

Open AI Gym: What do you think about the Reinforcement Learning toolkit and its evaluation methods? Its been approximately 10 days since the release of Gym. How has your experience with it been so far? Do you think academic/non-academic researchers will embrace it and use it as benchmarks in their publications? Or will it just end up as some highly decorated playground over time? More importantly, do you think it will do anything to accelerate AI research as claimed??