L2s are a great medicine for scalability but they aren’t the cure

Now I have to clarify that Vitalik’s vision is for L2s to become so incredibly efficient that the difference between medicine and cure doesn’t even matter anymore. He wants L2s to basically become an integral part of Ethereum’s chain.

But for the meantime, my title stays true to its word. L2s are more of a very effective band aid that constantly need change from time to time.

And that’s okay as long as L2s keep up this current pace of development.
Some find it toxic, but I think the rivalry between L2s is exactly what’s keeping Ethereum alive right now cause each L2 is trying to 1up the other.
Polygon and Loopring are both at each other’s neck and have both come up with some great tech as a result of that. We’ve also saw some aggressive development from Zksync resulting in impressive scalability number which landed them lots of funds from bitdao for ZkDAO’s development.

This is exactly what Vitalik is dreaming of, L2s grinding so hard that eventually they get so good at what they do that it all becomes seamless and part of the process where people think of L2s as part of Ethereum and basically take them for granted as a normal product not independent from Ethereum anymore.