Ethereum

This might be a dumb question but if most of the ETH gas fee is burned, why not just decrease the gas fees?

Is it really just to make ETH deflationary, at the expense of the cost to use the chain? Doesn’t that disincentivize usage?

the current gas limit is not set artificially low explicitly to burn more gas. The limit is based on what the core devs believe to be safe while preserving everyone's ability to run a full node on consumer grade hardware. We'll want to increase the gas limit and decrease costs as much as we possibly can while staying within the bounds of this constraint and the good news is it sounds like there are some large increases being planned for Fusaka!

primarily that node hardware requirements don't become too high, we want everyone to be able to verify the chain themselves if they choose to do so and that any changes to the gas limit don't lead to network instability. The exact parameters would need to be tested thoroughly before recommending a change