I'm on the verge on this.
Vitalik is obviously smart, so, sometimes I suspect he knows exactly what he's doing.
Other times, though, I think he's oblivious and doesn't know how hard he's betraying humanity as a whole.

eduardopro

OpenSea I don't think has any influence, but you can certainly add Lido to the list.

orthwyrm

Some of our brightest minds worked decades on the failed String theories, caught up in their own intellectual word-games, of no use in reality. Hope he's doing well and soon realizes that all of ETH is owned / controlled by Infura, Alchemy, and to a lesser degree OpenSea. A slow, wasteful, centralized federated graveyard.