Anyone else hate how much layer 2s and rollups split up the attention of the eth ecosystem? It is terrible user experience to have to bridge from one chain to another if you want to use a new dapp that is only available on a chain where you don’t have funds, the liquidity of the dapps also suffer, cause it is now split all over the l2s, and rollups.

Is there anything on the roadmap that eventually puts everything back in a single layer without the assle of having to use bridges, and where every app can actually be composable, etc ? Cause from what I read, scaling ethereum layer 1 with sharding is not in the plans anymore, so what is the end game?

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    There are some interop projects and thoughts about accessing cross rollup state and their basic idea would be to alleviate some of the pains, but one would still need account abstraction to be properly utilized to remove gas requirements. Furthermore dapps would need to integrate which is kind of a long shot. Overall it should get better, but perhaps not for everything and there will be some quirks as even with interop you won’t have direct state atomicity for cross layer 2 operations. Asset oriented dapps will have to work in isolation based on the specific network’s bridged assets. Unless they go another route which would introduce great latency to synchronize states, but this would break composability.

    So to answer your question - the UX might improve depending on your specific usage. Most of the current dApps will remain kinda clunky to use. And the ecosystem is definitely not going back to a single layer any time soon as there is no viable way to scale and optimize execution costs.