These days, I've been watching L2s argue again: TPS, fees, subsidies—who's louder. Frankly, what end users really care about are two things: Will my money get stuck or lost when I transfer it out, and who am I settling with when I click confirm.

As for modularity, for someone like me who just wants to tinker less, the biggest change isn't "faster," but that after splitting execution, data, and settlement, wallets and applications can hide the process in the front end: cross-chain, bridges, network swaps—these actions are increasingly like backend synchronization. You use the same entry point, but behind the scenes, several layers change, and in the end, it still needs to reconcile at a settlement layer.

So now I don't really chase who has the lowest fees; instead, I look at whether real on-chain transfers and contract interactions have increased, whether bridge traffic is being pushed mainly through subsidies, and whether there are many anomalies or rollbacks. When the market is noisy, I just check Aurora, for now.