Solana sees traffic and demand that no other network has ever come close to — it’s a stress test of the whole system. These are exactly the type of stress tests you cannot model in simulation, you have to just see how stuff works in prod and adapt.
The scaling and bug squashing is painful, but Solana is not alone in this. CryptoKitties put Ethereum through hell, and Ordinals found bugs in bitcoin core. These tests make systems better. Here, we like to test fast.
When each bottleneck is removed, engineers move on to the next. Amdahl's law governs us all — scaling is a never ending marathon, not a sprint.
Time and time again Solana has shown it can overcome today’s bottleneck in search of tomorrow’s.