Why is there a narrative being pushed that Polygon is some "Eth killer"? It's actually very Eth friendly.

I keep consistently seeing this narrative that Polygon is an Ethereum killer and is competing with Ethereum. How can you compete with something you're built on? Before you hit me with the "BUT IT'S A SIDE CHAIN OP HURRR". They are working on four ZK solutions. Polygon also has the largest number of users out of all other EVM compatible scaling solutions and without it using/ developing dApps and smart contracts on Ethereum would be hell. I don't think it will be a side chain forever, the end-goal is to be a true L2.

Vitalik himself has even approved Polygon and is a big fan of the ZK technology they are bringing as well. Polygon and Ethereum need each other. So I do not really understand where this narrative even comes from.

The funny part is that the Polygon team themselves are Ethereum Maxis. Polygon has never marketed itself as an "Ethereum killer" like Solana has for example. We all know how that trainwreck ended up lmao. How can you say something is an Ethereum killer when Vitalik himself has been a part of their ZK summits?

I know it might not be a big deal to a lot of you but this narrative is just blatantly false, It gets on my nerves. I love Ethereum and I love Polygon. The Polygon team also loves Ethereum and is bringing it up rather than "killing" it. Just my 2 cents on this silly narrative that just doesn't hold any weight behind it.