I don't have a problem with layer 2 or 3 as long as risks and trade-offa are well communicated. For a long time I criticised the attitude of many that layer 2 will savely scale us or bring us privacy or tokens or sidechains. It's simply not true today and it was not true almost a decade ago.

There are trade offs and I am off the opinion that a base layer needs to perfect one thing and excel at it rather than trying to be everything for everybody.

That's why Iove Monero. It does one thing perfect and improved on some of the things Bitcoin could have done better like a security budget for mining (tail emission is not about not having a fixed number of coins, but about known economic assumptions meaning fee markets are not a proven concept one should rely on for all ones networth). 

 *layer 2/3 without trade offs and downsides which can come in various forms