CoinWorld reports that Vitalik.eth tweeted: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin emphasized the importance of protocol simplicity in achieving decentralization, censorship resistance, and user autonomy. He pointed out that Ethereum protocol development should avoid excessive complexity to maintain long-term sustainability. He proposed optimizing the protocol by simplifying code, reducing dependencies, and increasing invariants, while also suggesting gradually phasing out old features and transitioning to a more streamlined virtual machine architecture.