I just checked a few on-chain transactions, and it almost scared me half to death... I originally wanted to swap a small amount in a certain pool, saw that the gas was reasonable, so I clicked it, but during the few seconds of transaction queuing, someone forcibly inserted ahead, and the price suddenly slipped away. To put it simply, my small order became the one "providing liquidity." MEV actually doesn't mainly affect big players; it's more like people like me who are lazy to monitor the market and slow to react. Fair or unfair, I won't discuss, but the experience is really terrible.

Recently, new L1/L2s are offering incentives to pull TVL, and veteran users complain about "mining, arbitrage, and selling." I can understand: once incentives kick in, bots become even more active, and all the space for ordering is exploited, leaving ordinary users just paying tuition. Anyway, now I look at the slippage a couple of times before placing an order; I’d rather be slow. For now, that’s how it is.