The modularization concept has been hyped for more than half a year. But when I’m staring at gas, I can actually feel some changes—for example, after the DA layer is separated, sometimes congestion in the settlement layer gets passed through to the execution layer, yet users only see that their on-chain transactions either won’t run or can’t get through no matter what. As for what modularization changes for end users—honestly, for ordinary people who open their wallet and tap to do a cross-chain, it’s still “slippage as usual,” and they still “wait for confirmations as usual.” During airdrop season, all kinds of task platforms roll out anti-sybil measures, and the points-based system is competitive like clocking in to work. No matter how elegant your on-chain architecture is, in the end, what users get is just a “skin” for a chain-abstracted wallet—the essence doesn’t change.

Anyway, I feel that if modularization can’t help ordinary users send fewer rounds of signatures and deal with less gas, then it’s basically something made for developers to admire. I treat complexity like an enemy: if you’re going to build all these layers, you might as well first make that string of wallet address characters as easy to recognize as a personal homepage.