When the network is congested, I keep an eye on the mempool (basically everyone's transaction queue).

You think clicking confirm is the end of it, but actually you still have to compete with others for "who gets packed first."
If the fee is too low, your transaction gets stuck; if it's too high, it might get buried behind a bunch of more urgent transactions, or even see the same transaction broadcast multiple times, like shouting at the door repeatedly but no one paying attention.

I used to worry: is it my network problem, or my wallet acting up?
Later I realized it was pretty silly... it’s just congestion plus the bidding mechanism at play.
Recently, with social mining and fan token schemes—"attention is mining"—it’s a bit like the mempool: everyone is queuing up to compete for the same limited attention space, just in a different form of bidding.
Anyway, now when I encounter congestion, I slow down; if I can do it later, I do it later—don’t fight the on-chain sentiment head-on.