Last night I was already planning to switch to a smaller position, but then the chain started getting crowded again—gas shot up so fast it made me want to shut down my computer… I casually checked the monitoring, and saw someone moving large transfers and shifting funds between exchange hot and cold wallets, only to have it interpreted as “smart money.” The comments section was full of people just following along with their own made-up story. I’m an impatient person, and when I see this stuff, it really annoys me: whether a transfer is big or not isn’t the same thing as whether your transaction can get in cheaply for a block. They’re not the same.

As for modular chains—if you cut through the jargon, the two most practical changes for end users are just two words: experience. You don’t need to understand what DA or the settlement layer is; in the end, what matters in your wallet is whether it’s “fast enough,” whether it’s “expensive or not,” whether it’ll “get stuck,” and whether a failure still charges fees. If modular chains can move execution away and smooth out congestion so I have to look at the pending loading spinner one fewer time—and I’m not stuck behind some awkward block-packing order—then fine, I’ll accept it. But if you just rename it and keep charging ridiculously high fees, and there are still a bunch of people praising the concept, then forget it.