Recently, everyone has been arguing again about whether L2 has higher TPS, lower fees, and more aggressive subsidies... But honestly, what you see "on-chain" on your phone is often a shadow pieced together by nodes/RPC/indexers, not the kind of real-time data you can immediately get as soon as a block is confirmed.

I've personally fallen into this trap: the same transaction, still not visible on A's explorer, but already marked as successful in B's wallet. Only later did I honestly admit that it's not chain inconsistency; it's because the RPC you're connected to is lagging, the indexer is queuing, or the service provider's cache hasn't updated. You think you're looking at "real-time on-chain," but you're actually viewing the "latest version" of a certain service.

So now I have a habit: before key operations, check two sources instead of just relying on a single explorer screenshot to draw conclusions; if there's controversy, just directly check the raw event/logs (even if it takes longer). Don't mentally equate "not showing" with "not happening." Over the long term, this really saves trouble.