Recently, I saw a bunch of testnet point tasks, claiming to be practice.

As people kept doing them, they started calculating "how much I should be able to exchange," in other words, expectations rose, and people easily got excited.
My stop-loss is pretty simple: as long as it involves cross-chain/authorization/repeated address switching, I default that it's not practice but using security as a lottery ticket—if I can't finish it in one day, I just stop, and pretend I didn't see the rest, to avoid ending up writing incident reviews and scolding myself if something goes wrong at the last minute.

And now, with miners/validators' income and MEV sorting fairness being criticized, the more I look, the more I feel like "you think you're just earning points, but you're actually creating space for others to sort."
Anyway, I don't want to be fuel for this anymore.

There's just too much information, and it's making me anxious.
My current filter is simple: first ask myself, "Would I actually use this if it goes live?"
If I wouldn't use it, I won't touch it;
if I would, I only do a one-time small test, note the risks, and call it a day.
That's it for now.