The Problem Nobody Likes to Talk AboutDeFi has achieved remarkable things under tight constraints. Protocols like Uniswap have been skillfully engineered to balance user value, gas minimization, and security simultaneously. But look closely at the codebase of any major DeFi protocol and you'll see the same pattern: brilliant workarounds for a limited execution environment. The Ethereum Virtual Machine was not built for the kind of applications DeFi developers actually want to build.