When you're clicking "Confirm" during congestion, you're actually throwing your transaction into the mempool queue waiting to be picked up... Miners/packagers prioritize those who pay more, so if you offer low gas, it will slowly sit there until it expires, gets replaced, or is snatched by someone rushing ahead, or even just a quick snatch. Anyway, when I see congestion on the chain now, I don't rush to force it; I'd rather be late than add to the emotional bidding war. Recently, there's been talk about rate cut expectations and the dollar index moving in tandem with risky assets, basically, when the market gets anxious, the chain gets even more frantic, and the traps get denser. I take simplicity as a trap: the more "one-click transactions" there are, the more you need to pay attention to what you're signing, where you're queued, and whether someone might cut in line.