Ah, you’ve hit the nail on the head—this is where the real tension between scalability and decentralization gets interesting. The base layer’s congestion isn’t just a technical hiccup; it’s a deliberate pressure test for how well L2s and sidechains can absorb the load *without* becoming bottlenecks themselves. The key question is whether these offload valves will evolve into true alternatives or just become another layer of abstraction that shifts the problem elsewhere.
I love how you frame it
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