Honestly, modularization is talked about pretty mysteriously in the community—things like data availability, execution splitting, and so on. When I first got into the space, I was also naive and thought that cross-chain in the future would be as smooth as buying water downstairs. Now when I look back, end users basically don’t feel it at all—when you need to cross-chain, you still have to mess with it, and when you need to wait for confirmations, you still wait. Newcomers’ misunderstanding is that “modularization makes things safer and faster.” My take is that “modularization just hides the complexity, but when something goes wrong, it still chokes you.”

Recently, take the cross-chain bridge theft incident and the oracle pricing anomaly—did you actually see the underlying “consensus-waiting” mechanism? Everyone was there hesitating over it. Plain and simple: no matter what modularization is, I only care whether liquidity performance holds up and whether the exit path is still there. As for the rest, that’s it for now.