My biggest fear with cross-chain transactions now isn't the fees, but the constant "waiting": waiting for the source chain to confirm, waiting for the relay/validator group to avoid disconnects, waiting for the target chain to avoid rollback, and finally waiting for the multi-signature/contract of the bridge to stop acting up. Honestly, you think you're trusting the IBC/message passing protocol, but in reality, trust is broken into many parts: the chain itself, the client/light node, the relayer, the validator set, the contract implementation, upgrade permissions... Any bad mood in any link can hold you up all night.

Recently, I also heard that some regions are increasing taxes, tightening or loosening compliance regulations back and forth. The emotions around deposit and withdrawal are becoming more "urgent," and the more urgent, the more people want to use bridges; the more they use bridges, the more anxious they become... Anyway, now when I see the TVL in pools drop or lending rates tighten, my first reaction isn't to buy the dip, but to wait and think carefully: is this cross-chain activity betting on technology, or betting on people not causing trouble?