I've recently been debating cross-chain again: transferring from A to B is really not as simple as just clicking a "bridge"… Honestly, you're trusting a bunch of things: the source chain won't rollback, the target chain won't act up; the message passing system in the middle (relay/verification/multisig/oracles) shouldn't be tampered with; and also, liquidity pools shouldn't be suddenly drained, or you'll get stuck halfway with fees still burning. I quite like the idea of IBC, at least the verification path is clearer, but it's not "trustless by nature" either—light clients and relayers on the chains still need someone to run them. Recently, with the tightening and loosening of compliance signals, deposit and withdrawal expectations keep changing, and everyone gets nervous and rushes to bridge, making liquidity thin as paper… My current approach is to prefer taking a more secure route, even if it takes two more hops, splitting the limits into smaller parts, even if it's slower—security is the priority.