The Limitations of Layer Two Tokens

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I think that for some use cases that don't require composability Layer twos are interesting, right? Like you're building a game It can be in its own self-contained layer two. But if you're trying to build something that really leverages composability then I think layer twos Don't really work for that purpose And then Let's talk about the layer two tokens themselves. That's right because I question why they exist like why do you need a token at alllike, you know an arbitrum token or an optimism token Right, let's go back to that framework that I use for how these types of assets are valued Commodity like do you need the asset to pay

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