TVL is not the goal; TVL is a necessary evil. Every dollar locked in a (especially immature) protocol instead of being locked in a simple and secure wallet is to some extent a security risk.

Sometimes we have to take that risk to get valuable benefits, but locking for the sake of locking should be minimized.

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The argument also applies to Ethereum and Vitalik makes no secret of it.
At the contrary, he's very critical of the development of this ecosystem.
By the way, he already said that a significant part of his ETH are unstaked.

Decentralization is a process, not a final destination.