Modular chains—sounds like an “architecture upgrade”—but for someone like me, the end user, it really comes down to two things: whether trading is smooth, and whether my assets are truly safe. In the past, one chain handled everything: if it got congested, you just waited; if gas fees surged, you made fewer moves. Now, execution, settlement, and data are separated—in theory, if one part gets stuck, it shouldn’t take the whole thing down, and the experience will feel more like, “as long as it works, it’s fine.” But reality is pretty unforgiving: there are more bridges, more dependencies, and more links where things can go wrong... I’ve done LP, and I’ve been “educated” by impermanent loss—what I fear most is that the longer the chain, the blurrier the risk boundaries get. And recently, a bunch of new L1s/L2s are throwing out incentives to pull in TVL; I totally empathize with what old users complain about—“mine it, take profit, and sell.” No matter how good modularity is, in the end what users feel is this: don’t make me expose my principal to a pile of new components just to grab a bit of yield. Live through it first—then talk about returns.