Lately, the more I look at MEV, the more it feels like real-world "cutting in line," just that the line is in the mempool. To put it simply, those most affected aren't the big players who play aggressively, but rather ordinary users swapping tokens or making small transactions—slippage gets eaten, transaction order is changed, and you think you're just slow. Someone said, "That's just how the market is," I understand, but treating opacity as normal feels pretty uncomfortable.

These days, when the yield stacking from staking or sharing security gets criticized as "repetitive," I also resonate a bit: stacking leverage layer after layer looks impressive, but if the underlying ordering isn't fair, the higher you go, the more it feels like gambling on luck.

I used to follow someone who kept claiming "fair ordering is solved," but after pulling a few charts of fund flow paths, I realized it still comes down to the same few addresses eating the profits... Forget it, I quietly unfollowed. Now I prefer to pay attention to those willing to clearly state their restrictions.