I just turned off the MEV monitoring dashboard... It's not that I don't want to watch, but looking too much can make your mindset drift.

This on-chain "sandwich + arbitrage" strategy, you think you're picking up money, but often you're just paying tolls for others: when you jump into one of those trades, someone else has already arranged the slippage, gas, and route behind the scenes.
In other words, you contribute liquidity and pay fees, and you also serve as a signal light.

Recently, there's been talk about increasing taxes and tightening or loosening compliance in certain regions.
As deposit and withdrawal expectations change, everyone prefers to "buy low and sell high" quickly, which is basically feeding the "frenzy traders": the more urgent the trade, the easier it is to get bitten.
Anyway, I now take a deep breath before placing an order, and if I can set a limit price, I do.
I'd rather earn a little less than become someone else's dinner.