I love solidity. I learned solidity before I ever had any crypto and its what drew me to Ethereum. Devex improves every year. I think what's changed is everyone grew up. Most of the top early Solidity contributors are now leaders of real companies like @_hrkrshnn who founded Cantina. We were kids contributing to open source and driven by ideology. Ethereum has grown so big so fast that the opportunity cost of working for little pay on open source infra stuff is too high for people who are a little bit older, having kids, and growing startups. Solutions: - well funded institutions start working on alternatives, like Arbitrum working on Stylus - recruit more young punks and build talent pipelines for essential infra. But this is really hard and time intensive - build a culture of open source: funded companies who benefit from solidity and other OSS make space for & encourage employees to contribute This whole episode is just a reminder of how much opportunity there is in Ethereum for anyone who has the time and skill.