A lot of the past few years has been spent on research. The move to PoS is now complete and rollups are under active development. For a lot of use cases scali

A lot of the past few years has been spent on research. The move to PoS is now complete and rollups are under active development. For a lot of use cases scaling is a prerequisite and that's coming soon, likely 2-3 years of progressive improvements. Transactions on rollups are as low as 2 cents and EIP 4488 is expected to bring that down about 100x. You should really take a look at the roadmap: https://notes.ethereum.org/@domothy/roadmap https://notes.ethereum.org/@domothy/roadmap