You hear the term “modularization” so much—frankly, the most intuitive changes for ordinary users come down to just two things: transfers/interactions don’t feel as painful, and there are so many chains that people can’t remember them. In the past, squeezing onto one chain meant lag and higher costs; now execution and settlement are split apart, so the experience is a bit smoother, but you end up switching back and forth across more bridges and more asset versions... My biggest fear on weekends is this part—when there are more steps, the probability of something going wrong goes up too.

Recently, those new L1/L2s that come out and start issuing incentives to pull in TVL—I really understand why old users complain about “mining to sell.” For end users, “modularization” isn’t a faith; it’s something you need to look at one more time before you click confirm: which chain it’s on, which bridge it’s going through, and whether it’s just a temporary wave of hype. Anyway, I’d rather it be a little slower than wake up to alarms going off everywhere.