Chiming in to promote a similar project, a geospatial extension for Polars [1] I'm working on. It's not stable yet (abeit pretty close to), but is already pretty feature complete (it uses GEOS and PROJ as a backend, so has parity with GeoPandas).
> [...] There was nothing missing from so many beautiful works, except that it was true that the tooth was made of gold. When a goldsmith had examined it, it was found to be gold leaf applied to the tooth with great skill; but books were written before the goldsmith was consulted.
> I am not so convinced of our ignorance by the things that are, and whose reason is unknown to us, than by those that are not, and whose reason we find. This means that not only do we not have the principles that lead to the truth, but that we also have others that accommodate the false very well.
Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, Histoire des Oracles 1687. Translated with Deepl.