Several Ethereum developers expressed concerns that the aggressive four-year schedule proposed in EIP-9698 for expanding the gas limit by 100 times could pose significant risks to network stability, advocating for a more gradual and manually coordinated increase instead.

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Lukasz Rozmej, an Ethereum core developer, cautioned that any expansion should either be manually agreed upon or kept gradual to avoid unexpected network strain. Ethereum Foundation developer Jochem Brouwer echoed these sentiments. He warned that targeting a 100x increase within four years could prove too aggressive