Every time the chain gets congested, I just stare at that pile of "queue numbers" in the mempool. To put it simply, signing and sending doesn't mean it will be on the chain immediately. Miners/packagers pick the transactions with higher fees first, while the lower ones get stuck, get replaced, or even expire and need to be resent. You think clicking confirm is the end of it, but actually you're competing with a bunch of bots for a seat—slippage, failure fees, time delays all add to the chaos, and the experience is similar to fighting for tickets during Spring Festival travel rush.

Later, I realized this thing is quite similar to the economic collapse points in blockchain games: congestion is like inflation, everyone frantically raises prices to "extend life," studios and scripts run faster than humans anyway, and in the end, it’s a spiral of token prices spreading emotions onto the chain— the more urgent, the more loss. Anyway, when I encounter congestion now, I prefer to wait. If I really need to act, I only dare to try small amounts once, don’t treat yourself as the main character.