On April 13th, in response to the statement "Ethereum's self-renewal requires generational / talent turnover. And the next generation needs to be rooted in Ethereum values (such as cypherpunk)," Vitalik Buterin replied in Warpcast: "I actually think that the period of application layer growth is when good social philosophy is most needed. For example: suppose C++ was developed by an authoritarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is general-purpose, with not much room for bad social philosophy to ruin it (or for good social philosophy to improve it). Ethereum Layer-1 is not entirely like this: people who don't believe in decentralization won't add light clients, FOCIL, or (well-formed) account abstraction; people who don't mind wasting energy won't spend five years migrating to PoS... but in any case, the EVM's opcodes might be roughly the same. Therefore, Ethereum may be about 50% general-purpose. Applications are about 80% specialized. What kind of applications you build largely depends on your ideas about what Ethereum applications (and the entire Ethereum) will do for the world. Therefore, having good ideas on this subject becomes crucial." Additionally, Vitalik listed some applications, considering good applications like Railgun, Farcaster, Polymarket, Signal, and bad ones like Pump.fun, Terra/Luna, FTX. He believes that the differences in application functionality stem from developers holding different beliefs about the goals they want to achieve.