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When there's congestion, sending a transaction is basically just lining up in the mempool to wait to be "packaged." If you see your wallet showing pending for a long time, it's probably not stuck; miners/validators are just choosing to include more profitable transactions first. If the fee you offered isn't high enough, you'll have to slowly wait at the back... What's more embarrassing is that if you change the fee to speed up, the previous transaction is still in the queue, occupying the nonce, and your subsequent transactions get blocked. Basically, it's like waiting in line to buy bubble tea and not being able to switch numbers.
Recently, before and after the upgrade/maintenance of that mainstream public chain, as soon as the chain was crowded, many people started speculating whether the ecosystem would migrate. I think there's no need to rush into fantasizing about moving; first, look into why your transactions are always not getting confirmed: is it network congestion, or are you offering too little fee, or is the contract interaction itself resource-intensive?
I'm more focused on "queue and unlock rhythm" rather than looking at candlestick charts to find sentiment. That's all for now.