In the past, I would be tempted by those "grab and run" sandwich trades on the chain, thinking I could pick up some leftover scraps.

Now it feels more like watching a paid exhibition: you think it's an opportunity, but often you're just paying others' fees and contributing to slippage...
To put it plainly, the group that can make stable profits isn't operating in the same dimension in terms of speed and information.

Recently, cross-chain bridges have had issues again, and oracle price feeds have been acting up.
Everyone collectively "waiting for confirmation" is actually quite real: it's not that they don't want to rush in, but they don't want to be the last one to pay the bill.
My current habit is to slow down a bit—better to miss out than to squeeze into the shadows of a bunch of arbitrage bots.
Occasionally, when I see a promising NFT narrative taking off, I prefer to be a spectator—at least it's less exhausting.