zkEVM and Starknet liquidity sharing between dozens of L2s is what will end up changing the game.
Letting people provide liquidity to each other, all individually transacting with a decentralized app, such as buying a Disney Princess NFT, or notorizing a deed to a property, or trading a gun on a first person shooter on GameStop's network.
That's a lie people tell themselves to justify Ethereum's platform.
The reality is that I can build scalable L1 dapps on Algorand that "normal" users can use at extremely low cost.
As a dev however, that sounds foolish to me.
Also, chains like Algorand or Cosmos don't have "nobody else on the network".
Even so. If the service is not on a layer 2, then you have go through the bridging process of moving your ETH to and from layers which is more complicated than directly using a layer 1 blockchain.
These 'solutions' are telling everyone that Ethereum is never going to fix these issues and the duck-taped layer 2 contraptions are now making it even harder for 'normies' to just 'use it'.