Really disagree that end users don't benefit unless they run infra. End users will have to place trust in some places regardless: frontends, infra implementations, and their dependencies. It's perfectly acceptable for them to run light clients or place some trust into known RPC providers. Trust topology is complex; It's a much more reasonable goal to give users practical optionality to verify systems than mandating they MUST verify then.

We can and should make stepwise improvements in transparency and verifiability for the average person without *requiring* them to become cypherpunks.