Recently, on-chain data keeps "lagging," and I found that many times it's not your poor network, but waiting: waiting for RPC to let you through (rate limiting, suddenly 429), waiting for the indexer to process the new blocks, waiting for the subgraph to calculate the fields before sending data to the front end. Basically, on-chain data isn't a database; you also have to queue for reading, especially during peak times when everyone is querying together, making the lag more obvious.

A couple of days ago, I saw the discussion about the collapse of that blockchain game, which also seemed similar: when inflation kicks in, studios rush, the coin price drops, and everyone is waiting for others to run first... On-chain requests are the same; during congestion, everyone refreshes a couple more times, making it even more clogged. Anyway, when I see data pause now, I take a deep breath first, wait for it to catch up before drawing conclusions, and don't get caught up in the half-finished data.