Which do you have a problem with? Censorship Resistance, Open Source and Free, Privacy, or Security? These are exactly Ethereum's "product relevancy". These are the only things that distinguish a blockchain from a centralized database. Beneath all the edgy fanfare, a smart contract is only distinguished from server-hosted code by CROPS. The stablecoin chains already demonstrate this (to not even entertain some fight over hosting memetokens). Like do you want Ethereum to compromise the entire chain so it can "compete" with institutional clubs like Tempo, Arc, or Plasma? It would lose. It's only a quirk of temporary future-blindless that an intra-bank blockchain-aware faction has to drag the slow behemoth along with it through these games appealing to our industry. They will always resolve to the most profitable outcome for their oligopolistic incumbency. This is about speed and security to them. They could just abolish ACH and have cybersecurity upgrades to their systems. But they're not nimble so it has to look like disruption and alternative (so long as these are effectively no less outside their authoritarian purview). Fortunately, information and markets naturally free themselves of inefficiencies posed by vestigial intermediaries. I.e., the CROPS chain will attract flow in the long-run, only after the negative cost of vampiric middle-men is demonstrated by the market. This will take time. The 21st century stages man's digitization. It is a 100 year battle. Ethereum is the single most important project on the side of liberty. The technological affordances of the coming epoch will end in Singleton unless freedom is unavoidable. We already see this tendency in the AI wars. CROPS is the bedrock for any conceivable alternative. I, and even cynical bag-defending you, should want nothing less than this extreme solemnity in the hearts of the World Computer's stewards. If they took it any less seriously we wouldn't stand a chance.