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.

Stay Curious // iixii // Head of Crypto at https://www.lazertechnologies.com/  // Prev: CoinDesk, Roc Nation // based @basedevo

People have options for ar eason - 

I don't use a car to pick up lumber, and i don't use a truck to drive across country.

I use a pot to boil pasta, and a skillet to fry eggs.

simple examples but an important reminder that options create space for innovation and convenience for specific use cases.