While tinkering with Plasma on CreatorPad, what caught me off guard was the gap between its promised operational simplicity and the reality of deployment—$XPL seemed geared for quick wins in theory, but practice revealed otherwise. Early on, the #Plasma docs from @Plasma touted a "one-click" setup for sidechain integration, yet when I tried bridging assets beyond the defaults, it demanded manual verification steps that looped through error-prone API calls, turning a supposed 2-minute task into a 15-minute debug session. One design choice stood out: the UI hides advanced configs behind a nondescript toggle, assuming users won't need them, but in my flow, enabling custom gas limits exposed a cascade of dependencies that weren't documented inline. It left me reflecting on how such streamlining might empower solo devs at first glance, yet quietly favors those already versed in Ethereum tooling. Does this simplicity scale, or does it just defer complexity to the edges?