Unique addresses for DeFi are growing exponentially, crossing the 450,000 mark since the beginning of this year.
Ethereum needs to scale considerably to on-board the existing crypto user base of 50 million to DeFi platforms.
ETH 2.0 along with the layer-2 implementations might not be able to keep up with the growth in network usage from DeFi.
https://cryptobriefing.com/eth-2-0-wont-fix-ethereums-scalability-problems-analyst-argues/