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Recently, I've been thinking about the word "modularization," and honestly, the biggest change for ordinary users might not be slogans like "more decentralization," but rather: for the same transfer or interaction, it increasingly feels like using different lanes on a highway—some are cheap, some are fast, and some are more prone to traffic jams. In the future, when you click confirm, you're actually choosing "which execution layer to queue in and which settlement layer to backstop," but your wallet might do this automatically for you.
But the complaints are real too. If the set of issues like miner/validator income, MEV, and fair ordering aren't addressed, modularization, no matter how much money is spent, can easily turn into "dividing more teams to cut in line"... My current approach is still old-fashioned: send large amounts slowly, avoid the busiest times for important operations, and review transaction records afterward to see what costs ate into me. That's it for now, I need to get to work.