FOCIL does improve censorship resistance. It leverages multiple validators to reduce the influence that outsized parties can exert over transaction inclusion. It prevents public transactions from being intentionally and arbitrarily delayed based on rules or preferences not specified by the protocol. It adds checks and balances to ensure Ethereum remains credibly neutral. Reducing slot time to 6 seconds decreases inclusion latency for most transactions, but it does not address the relative difference in inclusion time between censored and uncensored transactions. Without FOCIL, and assuming the same builder market structure, this relative gap would remain exactly the same regardless of slot duration. If inclusion time were evaluated solely as a function of slot duration, Solana (400 ms slots) would appear approximately 30× more censorship resistant than Ethereum (12 s slots), which obviously makes no sense. FOCIL and 6-second slot EIPs are complementary, not competing. We should not artificially oppose them, and we should ultimately ship both. We also need zkEVMs, faster finality, and P2P networking improvements. Imo, the discussions should focus on prioritization, resource allocation, and technical readiness (see here for FOCIL: