Ethereum core developers recently expressed a sobering view: the current Ethereum protocol is too complex. How complex? Only a few technical elites can truly understand it, and this precisely undermines the essence of trustlessness.

Sounds a bit ironic, right? — Blockchain was originally meant to break trust monopolies, but the protocol design itself has instead created new centers of trust. Ordinary users can't understand the operational logic, and thus can't independently verify the system's security. In the end, they still have to trust the judgments of a few "experts." How is this fundamentally different from centralization?

Therefore, the clear direction for future improvements is to eliminate those flashy but unnecessary complexities, making the protocol simpler and more intuitive. As more people can read the code and participate in audits, security vulnerabilities can't hide, and the space for malicious attacks will be squeezed even smaller. The ecosystem's risk resistance naturally improves.

This is not just a technical optimization issue but a fundamental question of whether blockchain can truly achieve decentralization. What do you think? Can Ethereum really be simplified enough so that ordinary people can understand the underlying logic of blockchain?