Importance of scalability.

Rapid growth needs to be balanced with a sturdy foundation 

Maintaining a high level of security without compromise.

Developers. Base should invest in developer onboarding. It's much easier for Base already to gain dev attention (b/c of EVM/Eth).

Moving as fast as it can towards more Decentralization & trustless-ness in every front (at the end of the day, Base's name shouldn't be tied to anyone).

No outage or its hard to rise again

Fast and inexpensive transactions are highly desirable, and so is reliability.

When your database crashes, just keep on truckin' and restore from backup -- cause no one cares