yeah wallet format, segwit, batching, etc. all mainchain throughput increases done with a soft fork. This isn't even talking about the different layers which unlock a whole lot more. Trying to keep up with hardware through hard forks was never going to work. There's a reason why Bitcoin mogs everyone else. Keeping data for frivolous transactions doesn't scale. Eth was smug as hell until they ran into a wall. If xmr ever gets going they'll do the same.