Just now, I sent a transaction that got stuck in the mempool queue, watching the status for a few minutes felt like being squeezed at the subway entrance: you think first come, first served, but actually everyone is watching "who is more urgent." During congestion, this happens—others add a small tip to cut in line, your transaction slowly moves back, and sometimes it gets bumped out and has to start over... Basically, patience is being used as a stress test.

Now I treat myself as doing a "backup": preparing two ways to handle the same thing, if in a hurry, go L2 or split into smaller parts; if not urgent, just wait, don’t force the steering wheel when the mainnet is congested. The kind of inflation + studio-driven price spiral in chain games, having seen more, makes me think even more: don’t pin all hopes on a single confirmation, leave some redundancy, and keep a steady mindset. That’s all for now.