Tim Beiko warned that Ethereum upgrades that prioritize the wrong features or are poorly executed risk ceding ground to competing ecosystems with different values

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If we falter, by prioritizing the wrong things or failing to execute, we risk ceding ground to ecosystems with very different values.

Loss of Competitiveness: Failing to deliver essential upgrades efficiently could cause Ethereum to fall behind other blockchain ecosystems that might offer different, perhaps more appealing, values or features to users and developers.