| Roadmaps only ever describe additions, which makes them less informative than they look — everything sounds like it's coming eventually and you learn nothing about the product's actual shape. The more useful list is what isn't coming, with the reasoning and the cost. No standing balances. A custodial pool is a concentrated target whose value grows with adoption, and the cost of getting it wrong lands on users. Not having one removes the risk category rather than mitigating it. What it costs you: no parking funds between decisions, no recurring automated trades, no partial fills held for later. Real features, deliberately given up. No user accounts. Every credential store eventually appears in a breach disclosure and every email collected is a correlation vector. The strongest guarantee about data is not holding it. What it costs you: no recovery path. The order inquiry code is your only handle, and losing it means no reset and no lookup. Genuine downside, not a footnote. No saved addresses. A stored address list is a map of where your funds go, exactly the sort of record that becomes valuable to someone else later. What it costs you: pasting an address every time. No engagement mechanics — no points, streaks, tiers or notifications designed to bring you back. An exchange should be used when you have something to exchange. Honest conclusion: this is a narrower product than it could be. Some people genuinely need standing balances, recovery paths and saved destinations, and for them a custodial exchange with an account is simply the better tool. Worth saying plainly rather than pretending one architecture suits everyone. |