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Lately I've been struggling again: the mainnet is "stable" and "authentic," but every time I click to interact, the gas looks like a blind box, and the experience is really discouraging; using L2 is much smoother, and the costs look good, but just thinking about cross-chain bridges, withdrawal waiting times, and occasional stalling always makes me want to keep a backup. To put it simply, my current compromise is: small, high-frequency transactions go to L2, treating it as my daily wallet; for long-term storage or participating in critical contract upgrades/governance, I go back to the mainnet for a "closure." Additionally, on-chain monitoring must be in place, or else you won't know if something goes wrong with the bridge one day. Recently, everyone has been complaining about validator income, MEV, and unfair ordering, which I can understand—anyway, ordinary people just want to click a button and make a transaction, not research who’s cutting in front of them... For now, this way I can sleep better without too much fuss.