Chatting with friends, I discovered something interesting: this round of $ETH vs $SOL looks just like the last round of $DOT vs $ETH.

Last round: Polkadot had all sorts of ceiling-breaking technologies—cross-chain, parachains, governance mechanisms, and a roadmap that was more beautiful than poetry. Ethereum was just a "slow student," and DeFi Summer told you in the wildest way—"as long as it works, it's fine."

This round: Ethereum has become a "tech geek" with Rollup Centric, zkRollup, DA modularity, Based Rollup... Developers are left confused. Solana, on the other hand, resembles Ethereum from back in the day, with MEME flying everywhere, smooth DEX, and newcomers getting the hang of it in no time—"as long as it's fun, it's fine."

Thinking carefully, it's really a case of the wheel of fortune turning. Back then, Ethereum used "rough and quick" to defeat Polkadot's perfectionism, and now Solana is challenging Ethereum's tech worship with simplicity and brutality.

Users don’t care how advanced your technology is, as long as it makes them feel good???

As for whether Solana can become the second-in-command across cycles, and whether Ethereum will fall into the decline of empty technical talk like Polkadot?

If this cycle doesn't work, there will definitely be a conclusion in the next cycle. In fact, the technical narrative is not wrong; the mistake is detaching from user experience and community.