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I've recently been reviewing a bunch of modularization materials, and the more I look, the more I feel: for end users, the changes might not be as dramatic as everyone thinks. Frankly, you still just click confirm, wait for the funds to arrive, it's just that behind the scenes, "execution/data/consensus" are separated, allowing wallets and applications to choose different routes more flexibly, and the experience could be more stable—no more congestion one moment, then relying on subsidies to push fees down to the ground the next.
Right now, Layer 2s are competing over TPS, fees, and ecosystem subsidies, and it's quite lively, but what ordinary users really care about might be: do I still need to open three or four bridges and sign a bunch of messages when crossing chains, and are they afraid of making mistakes? If these modular interfaces and standards had been unified earlier, maybe today we wouldn't have each one like an "independent small country," forcing users to act as diplomats... Anyway, I prefer to pay for less hassle and more predictable outcomes; good-looking numbers don't necessarily mean good usability.