Is Ethereum different from Vitalik Buterin’s first vision of it?

To best answer this question, it is important to note that Buterin’s first vision was making Ethereum a “world computer.” During the recent Bankless podcast, Buterin assessed Ethereum’s progress towards its original vision of being more scalable and secure while maintaining decentralization. He categorically said that Ethereum is halfway to fulfilling its original vision. Furthermore, he said that the network would achieve 60% when the current Ethereum Mainnet merges with the Beacon Chain Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. Besides, he opined that it would pass 80% when they execute a complete sharding execution, splitting Ethereum into several portions known as ‘shards.’