Honestly, using Base is very pleasant considering all you can do on that Ethereum Layer2. The level of decentralization keeps improving, the gas fees remain very low most of the time.

Base has successfully attracted top builders and major existing dapps.
As a result the number and the variety of dapps available is substantial:

. Lending/borrowing/bridging/swapping (Cowswap, Aave, Uniswap, Aerodrome, Fluid, Morpho, Jumper, Relay...)
. Ai agent/token launchpad/tradingbot ( Virtuals, Clanker, Heyelsa, Senpi, Bracky...)
. Privacy ( Fluidkey,Veil...)
. Social networks/social trading/micro payments (Farcaster, TBA, Interface, Cobuild, Noice...)
. Creator economy ( Bp.fun , Zora, FC, TBA, Hypersub, Mirror, Paragraph, Coop, micro payments to creator and incentives to collectors...)
. Builder economy ( many many incentives...)
. Gaming (see B3 layer3)
. Memecoins/creator coins experiments ( Degen, Clanker, Zora, TBA, Bp.fun...)
. NFT scene getting some traction ( Basedpunks, Miggles, Warplets lately...)

In my humble opinion, Base current success is due to their strong innovation and the excellent incentives they offer to developers, creators/artists, and collectors (who are often overlooked ;)).

I think that, like Arbitrum, they will be a consistently innovative and important blockchain post-TGE.

Of course, everything isn't perfect (we can debate creator coins, certain pump-and-dump schemes that benefit a few influencers, etc.), but this also seems to be a strength for them: trying, testing, innovating, and if it doesn't work, starting over.

Base is imperfect, and they're okay with that, as long as they do better next time.

Thank you for reading ;)