I just saw an interesting point raised by Hayden Adams about how the community talks about Rollups. Basically, he says that calling them "parasites" overlooks something important: these projects are doing a brutal engineering job to scale Ethereum. It’s not that they live off the protocol without contributing; they are carrying a huge part of the technical workload that Ethereum could take on itself.

What caught my attention is his critique of how the current roadmap is laid out. If Ethereum intentionally externalizes all this work to Rollups, then it’s a bit unfair to blame them afterward. Hayden Adams suggests something deeper: if we truly want Ethereum to be more independent and robust, it needs to change its mindset.

Instead of viewing each challenge as a theoretical research problem, Ethereum should adopt a more serious, engineering-driven approach. That means direct technical investment, not just delegating everything to Layer 2. It’s a pretty clear critique of the current strategy, and honestly, it makes sense from the perspective of those on the front lines building these solutions.

The question remaining is whether the Ethereum community will take this seriously or if we’ll keep following the same model.