My prior with respect to the ability for ethereum to deliver "the merge" to switch to proof of stake was recently reevaluated dramatically upward, after the rec

My prior with respect to the ability for ethereum to deliver "the merge" to switch to proof of stake was recently reevaluated dramatically upward, after the recent London hard fork went through without a hitch. I was following it for awhile and there is (in my view) really no way to look at it except as an example of an extremely well run very large update to an enormous and complex system. The communication was good, the cadence of test rollouts was good, the testing setup with multiple testnets was good, the upgrade itself was a total non-event, which is honestly unbelievable to me, as someone who has worked on upgrading complex (but significantly less so) systems. I still have a lot of questions about ethereum as a project (like: what are blockchains actually good for?), but this software project management stuff is way down the list of concerns for me. I certainly don't understand why people care about arbitrary deadlines and timelines. One advantage of open and permissionlessly developed software like this is not being beholden to a boss breathing down your neck about deadlines and timelines. Just build the software, it will be done when it's done.