Ethereum - What Are the Core Properties Ethereum Is Optimizing For?

The biggest thing that everyone obviously everyone wants is what scalability. What I think is the more accurate view of scalability is how do you get a bunch of transactions while also actually keeping requirements for users and nodes very low? So that is broadly the direction that like Ethereum is going. As far as the composability point you mentioned, there is probably a bit of a sacrifice there compared to the way that some other chains are going to scale at least to some degree. That being said the large majority of use cases don't require that level of like synchronous composability.