Just now, watching the mempool queue made me a bit impatient: the moment you click confirm isn't just "it's sent and done," it's more like getting a number at a service counter. First, it broadcasts to the nodes, then it gets crowded in the pool with a bunch of transactions heading in the same direction, competing over who is willing to pay higher fees; when congestion hits, miners/validators pick the "more valuable" ones first, your transaction might get stuck, replaced, or even expire and become invalid, and the wallet just keeps spinning… Honestly, all the anxiety is written into those few minutes of delay.

Recently, I also heard that some regions are tightening and loosening regulations and taxes, causing people's deposit and withdrawal expectations to change, and the on-chain queue immediately shifts accordingly: some are rushing to withdraw, some are rushing to transfer, mempool acts like a sentiment thermometer. Now, before I see a large transfer across bridges, I prefer to check the queue and whether the same address is repeatedly increasing the fee; I’d rather be slow than gamble on luck in congestion.