One of Ethereum's biggest issues is that we often let the detractors/bears set our narratives for us and essentially alter perceptions around what the reality actually is. Take the recent narrative that Ethereum has somehow "pivoted" to scaling/improving the L1 when in reality, it's just a reprioritization of roadmap items *that already existed*. Here is Vitalik's roadmap diagram from November 2022 - I've circled in red a bunch of things (but not everything) that people think Ethereum has "pivoted" to even though this diagram was published 2.5 years ago. The main reason why L1 scale/improvement has taken center-stage now is because core developers have the breathing room to focus on it and a lot of the r&d from previous years (client optimizations being a major one) means the network is in a healthy position to scale the L1. From 2019-2024, core devs had a lot of other things in focus on: - Beacon Chain development and launch (2019/2020) alongside new CL clients built from scratch - A bunch of EL + CL forks with various EIPs attached - EIP-1559 went live August 2021 - The Merge was the focus from 2020-2022 and went live on September 15th, 2022 - Focus then shifted to staking withdrawals (live in April 2023) and blobs - Blobs then went live in March 2024 - Plus all of the r&d that happened on every other roadmap item during this time (rip EOF though) Don't call it a comeback for the Ethereum L1, it's been here for years.