I think the rollup-centric roadmap was a no-brainer, & L2s are truly part of Ethereum

To explain why, I broke down the history showing how the rollup-centric roadmap is key to global scale & how deeply L2s & L1 are intertwined

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for some reason this passage stuck out as a "why L1 if L2" point.

Ethereum tokens can be really secure, which is not mutually exclusive to other layers of really dynamic state (with further tokens).

a central reason why bridges exist on Ethereum before they follow everywhere else.