The problem of high transaction costs in the ethereum network has been ripe and overripe for a long time. Therefore, Buterin's proposal to introduce a separate improvement that can reduce the cost of transactions by five times will not be superfluous, even if, as a result of the general update of the ethereum network, they will still significantly decrease. There are so many ethereum clones already that the competition is going to be pretty tough. This is also good, it will force all blockchains to be constantly improved.