Yep, it’s been working fine on tests-passed for as long as I can remember. I did submit some slight tweak to the Topic page recently to keep it polished:
As you can see, sidebars are working great, I have used them here for ages:
In addition I added a Layouts widget in the AI Topic Summary Plugin so you can have a summary in a sidebar.
It’s always good to try these things in a staging site, do you have one?