While innovation is philosophically central to the Ethereum ecosystem, we’ve become too inward-facing, too focused on incremental technical differences between very similar products, and possibly too invested in specific tech over what users actually care about.

We can't keep talking about incremental innovations thanks to our specific architecture choices or consensus stacks. Solana has successfully focused on the innovations that resonate with users, that is: is this fast, is this cheap, and is this easy?