Tonight, while munching on chips and browsing the blockchain, I suddenly saw the secondary market royalties causing a fuss again... To put it simply, everyone wants "freedom to trade," but creators are also relying on this to survive. It's just that the more they argue, the more it looks like a game: royalties are written into the contract and are very firm, but once the market takes a detour or aggregators match orders, in the end, it still depends on who is more willing to cooperate.

And I can also empathize with retail investors complaining about miner/validator income, MEV, and fairness in transaction ordering: you think you're supporting creators, but a swap ends up taking a strange route, with fees + front-running + priority, and you see the money slipping out of your pocket... tired but still here. Anyway, I now prefer to treat "royalties/tips/priority" as the same thing: who to give to, how much, and whether it can be more transparent. Let's leave it at that for now, and tomorrow I'll look into how that strange transaction was routed.