EOS Scaling Issues and Their Impact on the Blockchain

The EOS blockchain appears to be running into considerable scalability issues that are hindering its ability to securely host decentralised applications on the network. The problem is that the blockchain has grown so dramatically that only a handful of block producers can afford to store the entire thing.
Since most dApps connect exclusively to one of these producers, if they were to go down as a result of economic or technical issues, or were to start acting maliciously, the applications refere