Recently, discussions about MEV (in simple terms, someone being able to "cut in line" ahead of you) have picked up again. My feeling is: its most direct impact isn't the big talk about "whether there are bad actors on the chain," but rather on ordinary users' transactions—those swaps, those mints—where even after clicking confirm, the transaction price gets squeezed a bit, slippage increases, and the experience becomes really bad. The issue of ordering itself isn't inherently evil, but when "who goes first or second" can be bought out, the sense of fairness gets chipped away little by little.

The inflation and studio-driven token price spirals in blockchain games are somewhat similar: the rules haven't changed, but everyone is just better at exploiting them. In the end, the pressure still falls on retail investors and genuine players.

As for what I mean by "long-term," it's not that grand… for me, it's roughly a quarter. If I can go through a complete emotional cycle from excitement to calmness, that's long-term enough. Anyway, don’t elevate a one- or two-day experience of cutting in line to "my faith has collapsed." Treat the risk as part of daily life first.