Buterin reemphasizes that Ethereum’s complexity works for its favor and not against it

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a blog post this week reflecting on the possible directions his creation could have taken. The piece, titled, "The roads not taken," is technical in places, but the main conclusions are easy to grasp.

Ethereum today has resulted from previous choices, decisions that were constrained by resources and “brain cycles” and implementations where sometimes it was worth waiting for perfect and other times when good enough sufficed.

“In general, it sometimes feels to me like Ethereum's biggest challenges come from balancing between two visions – a pure and simple blockchain that values safety and simplicity, and a highly performant and functional platform for building advanced applications,” Buterin wrote.

The man knows what he’s doing. This too is the case for the Metaverse and the many installations within it like Suku world that uphold these regimens. Some complexity in technicality is necessary and works for the favor of the projects themselves, and makes it look even simpler the user on the market.

Take the case of the automatic transmission. When it first came out, it was frowned upon for it complexity in construction, but it still gave the user the most relaxed experience, and this is why it stuck with us.

Ethereum initially wanted to become the “world computer,” or a decentralized platform, powered by cryptocurrency to execute any conceivable application. Today, Ethereum supports a multibillion-dollar economy, attracts some of the world’s smartest computer scientists and is the wellspring from which a number of novel computer “primitives” surface.

Ethereum is often criticized within the crypto industry, especially by bitcoiners, for its hierarchy of developers. There are certainly people and organizations with sway over Ethereum, but the network is arguably democratic. Or, at the very least, its oligopoly exists in the open.