Just now I sent a transaction that got stuck in the mempool waiting in line, watching the status for a few minutes felt like squeezing at a subway entrance: you think first come, first served, but actually everyone is watching "who's more urgent." During congestion, this happens—others add a small tip to cut in line, your transaction slowly gets pushed back, and sometimes it gets bumped out and has to start over... Basically, patience is being used as a stress test.

Now I treat myself as doing a "backup": preparing two ways to handle the same thing, if in a hurry, go through L2 or split into smaller transactions; if not urgent, just wait and see, don’t force the steering wheel when the mainnet is congested. The kind of inflation + studio-driven spiral in on-chain games, having seen it more, makes me think even more—don’t pin all hopes on a single confirmation, leave some redundancy, and stay calm. That’s it for now.