Ethereum community leaders view Lean Ethereum as a guiding philosophy rather than a prescriptive directive

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To go deeper: - Read up on mini-3SF and beam roadmap prototypes - Watch beam call recordings - Explore Vitalik’s post on partial state nodes Lean Ethereum = guiding philosophy.

Stanczak wrote that many ideas will proceed to testing while others will evolve, calling the roadmap an “unifying theory” rather than an immediate directive.