why are so many team members leaving Optimism at the same time

Eng @superstate. Chasing curiosity. People, nature, machines. Hakuna matata, "Its a problem-free philosophy.”

Also typically when these things happen it means that the company is about to make a meaningful direction change and these people are not onboard.

A bunch of people probably just fully vested after joining in the 2021 growth period. 

Also, agree with @six looks like they did a great job on launching an open source stack. Unlikely superchain becomes a thing.

not a comment on departures, no info there, but i kinda think the superchain experiment is "complete", and was a success with the main output being Base.

so higher leverage things for people to work on on both ethereum infra side and app layer side.

I interviewed there and was amazed by the people, project, and code. It’s a project I think has amazing potential, so unless they’ve gone to even more exciting project, they’ll probably regret the moves