I'm also concerned about the disconnect between the goals of the devs and the goals of the investors. The investors of course want the value of the coin to increase (I assume?), but the devs, while they are surely also holders, are also acting to help the consumers of the network, who want the coin to be as close to free as possible. So while dev improvements to improve throughput and reduce transaction fees are great for the users of the network, they are only good for investors if they also result in so much more demand that it offsets the reduction in demand caused by the improvement (implicit in, say, the reduction of fees. Users want to buy as little as possible to get their code executed).

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I think the argument is that the burning of ETH when the network gets more usage offsets to balance the desires of investors and users, but I'm not smart enough to intuit whether this kind of balancing will work out for the investors or not. Considering my uncertainty, it doesn't quite reach the hurdle rate of return-on-risk for me. But it's close, maybe a few more words of education would help?