Lately, watching on-chain swaps has been a bit frustrating: you think you're "catching opportunities," click to confirm, and then slippage jitters or the execution price skews, most likely being sandwich attacked... To put it simply, the arbitrage opportunities you see are often just the transaction fees others queue up and jump in front of you to take. The most annoying part is that gas fees keep soaring, even for small trades, artificially turning it into "taxes paid to miners/packagers."

I now basically avoid hot pools, preferring to earn less by setting limit orders, splitting transactions, or choosing better timing—saving a little whenever I can.
Developers are excited about modularization and Layer 1 narratives, but for users, the experience is still: press the confirm button, and your wallet gets educated.
Anyway, I’ll just tough it out for now—don’t treat me like a liquidity ATM anymore.