Just checked the mempool, it’s really like a queueing scene… Clicking send doesn’t mean it’s immediately on the chain, it’s just sitting in the pool first, miners/block producers pick and pack it, if the fee is low they keep waiting, and during congestion it might even be “cut in line” by higher fees from later transactions, or your transaction gets resent/replaced by the wallet if it takes too long. The feeling is: I clearly clicked it, so why hasn’t it moved yet?

It’s even more obvious during on-chain liquidation waterfalls, where the queue suddenly lengthens, failures and rollbacks happen more often, and you spend a lot but nothing actually happens, which is quite annoying.
Recently, the “compound yield” from staking/sharing security has been a hot topic, and honestly, during congestion, you can see more directly: the yield is compounded, but so are the risks and delays.
Tired but still hanging in there, so I set the gas conservatively for now, don’t push yourself too hard.