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As Justin Drake highlighted, Ethereum faces significant hurdles in providing a robust framework for applications. The separation between Layer 1 (L1) and Layer 2 systems has purportedly led to fragmentation within the ecosystem, with alternate chains becoming isolated. Martin Köppelmann echoed these sentiments, emphasizing that Ethereum is at risk of losing its overall network effects, primarily due to the rapid proliferation of diverse and heterogeneous rollups that now constitute the L2 landscape.
While Drake suggested that there is remarkable progress being made with L2s, Köppelmann argued that without a unified and harmonious network, developers could find themselves in a fragmented space, making it challenging to create and interact with applications across various rollups.