Recently, someone asked me again about how much knowledge is needed to understand blockchain builders, bundles, and so on... To be honest, retail investors only need to know three things: your transaction isn't "directly included in the block," it might be packed and reordered in the middle; the slippage/failure you see isn't always due to your mistake, sometimes someone is inserting things before or after you; don't blindly believe that "private channels" are necessarily safer, at most they reduce public scrutiny. Of course, studying deeper is useful, but there's no real need to push yourself to become a researcher.

By the way, I find it a bit funny and frustrating how the debate over privacy coins/mixing and compliance boundaries is going: on one hand, shouting for privacy and freedom, on the other, wanting an absolutely clean execution environment... Anyway, I personally split large amounts into smaller trades, limit orders when possible, and avoid hard conflicts when pools are unstable. That's how I do it for now.