Users treat exuberant fees as a defacto liveness failure. To those users Ethereum was down for all of 2021.  Ethereum fees were so bad that 99.5% reliability but guaranteed low cost was better, and thats how solana managed to get pmf.

Using Ethereum was prohibitively expensive in 2021 which led me to explore and tinker around on Solana more 

There’s design tradeoffs that each Ethereum and Solana made which resulted in their respective issues. For Eth, it was high fees. For Sol, it was downtime. Neither are perfect but we’re lucky to have both.

Solana has a per-contract (account) fee market. Ethereum has a global fee market.

To make Ethereum fees go up, the entire chain has to be congested. To make Solana fees go up, only the contract you're using needs to be congested.

With this goal post, Solana is always experiencing defacto liveness failures.

the real pmf of narrow fee markets is being able to claim "lower median fees" and gaslight users with "works for me" while they try to interact with congested contracts

at the limit, load balancing hot spot contracts runs into similar interop challenges as based rollups, without any of the other benefits of rollups

That's not the tradeoff, that's the psyop.

IMO the tradeoff is making it viable and cheap to spike a single contract hot spot (reducing the reliability of urgent actions like liquidations, oracle updates, etc) vs forcing to DoS the entire chain to censor a transaction.

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That's not the tradeoff, that's the psyop.

IMO the tradeoff is making it viable and cheap to spike a single contract hot spot (reducing the reliability of urgent actions like liquidations, oracle updates, etc) vs forcing to DoS the entire chain to censor a transaction.

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Right but the user experience on a monolithic chain like Solana is better than the user experience across a fragmented universe of rollups for every app/use case 

That could change with interop improving but still a long ways to go

That tradeoff makes sense though.  If I want to use a specific application/contract then it's better if usage of a separate app/contract doesn't affect my ability or price to access the app/contract I want to 

This seems like a good solution for users who want to use the chain but don't want to have to worry about network-wide congestion