High gas fees, reduced popularity of DEFI, rapid decline of TVL on the chain, distrust of ETH2.0, criticism from miners, and restrictions on participants by the POS mechanism. Will the challenges of new technologies and new public chains cause ETH to decline rapidly?
Even though the gas fee of Ethereum increases with time, I do not see any reason why the DeFi project would be abandoned because more features are coming out everyday. Ethereum is a great project just like Bitcoin thay is currently having effect on the cryptocurrency market and the entire altcoin market. Ethereum will continue growing everyday and I know that later everything will be resolved.
the difference of eth dev team from other most dev teams out there is that they have good amount of resources to further develop their network. and they won't run away or disappear as knowing that it is headed by vitalik, do you really think that he will get away from this industry just because of money? i don't think so. maybe, i have high regards on vitalik's team, but even if they are delayed with their targets, i believe they are not just sitting and relaxing but doing their best to cater better services to the crypto community.