This week, Kyle Samani released a provocative piece called The Hidden Cost of Modular Systems. We're building modular systems at Eclipse, so I figured this is as good of a time as ever to put my thoughts in writing. Kyle shows an impressive understanding of the modular stack. I agree with Kyle on some points such that modular chains don't make code execute faster, they don't make things cheaper (unless you're on Ethereum - though I have some nuance to add below), and they ...