Just brushed up on the debate about whether secondary royalties should be mandatory, and casually looked at the transaction policies of several markets. To put it plainly, everyone is using "creator income" as a moral badge, but what really determines whether you get paid are liquidity and platform rules. Change the frontend/router and it’s gone; mandatory doesn’t necessarily mean truly enforced. What annoys me most is those who include royalty-free transactions in the "creator-friendly" data, making a false prosperity that makes my scalp tingle. Now L2s are competing daily on TPS, fees, and subsidies, but it’s all the same: the more competitive the metrics, the easier it is to hide "where the money comes from." Anyway, when I look at projects now, I first ask: who is paying the cash flow, and can it match the on-chain records.