Hi papa_raw, the proposal can still enable Celo to become an ETH L2 Rollup that settles on Ethereum but still use Celestia for Data Availability, allowing for huge scalability potential for Celo to keep transactions cheap long-term to continue enabling affordable payments in emerging markets.
I do agree it’s a massive project which is why an incentivized testnet like Mezcal is designed to at least prove this proposal as a proof-of-concept. It’s going to be a long roadmap, but it does provide at least a roadmap and a vision and something radical to experiment with on the core level. Application developers can still be able to test out things on Mezcal before deploying to Celo, given that this change only impacts consensus and not the EVM itself.
If after the Merge, Celo Mainnet sees the benefit in this experiment, then at least the community would benefit from all the work done on Mezcal to bring a major improvement to Celo Mainnet.
Happy to further clarify any questions.