Well, I have been wondering the same for months.
LSS is that ETH is working hard on sharding and all that other scaling stuff and they do put out tons of updates.
This mess is the FIRST thing I thought about the night I heard about Crypto Kitties...... I rolled my eyes, then realized it would be good for onboarding the masses...... then I realized about 2 mins later, it was grinding the ETH network to a halt.
I then blogged on that -- that night and immediately stated those facts outloud there and.......
pointed to 
"Will Vitalik have to call in Dan Larimer to solve this problem??"
It was a good post with my usual stuff in there LOL, it was undervalued.
I think I tweeted it out too, but I cannot remember.
I just posted the BTC price update a couple mins ago with the 2 other sub-10k dips / last 90 days charted out.
I am not a veteran like you but.....
We will be OK.
Right????????
(:
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