In the early days of the modular roadmap, a few chains emerged, so it was trivial to just connect them. But as we head towards 10,000+ chains, the connected chain approach is neither usable nor scalable.
The answer to fragmentation is not connected chains, but abstracted chains. Not cross-chain, but chain abstraction.
Every cross-chain protocol is fundamentally trying to replicate TCP/IP which is a low-level connectivity protocol, but in reality developers and users never use TCP/IP directly.
With @SOCKETProtocol users don't need to worry about the underlying chains they are interacting wit