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You talk about data availability, ordering, finality every day. I was initially overwhelmed by these terms... Later, I focused on one main thread: where exactly is my money "written into," and "who can modify it, and how long does it take to do so." Data availability, simply put, is whether you can get hold of the ledger content (if you can't, you're just staring blankly); ordering is about who is in line, and whether you can cut in line; finality is how long it takes for something to truly settle and not rollback.
Recently, with the staking and shared security model of "yield stacking," I see a bit of a nested doll vibe: is security really stacking up, or are risks stacking up... Anyway, before cross-chain, I still stick to my old habit: I prefer it to be a bit slower, so I can take a closer look at whether I can exit, who will take the blame if something goes wrong, rather than ending up with "finality" only existing in words.