I’ve recently lowered my expectations: don’t always think “mainnet is the only legitimate chain,” and don’t treat L2 as an all-purpose money-saving coupon. To put it simply, ordinary people have only two compromises: for small, frequent transactions, stay on a smooth L2 to save gas and worry less; if you need to store large amounts, move across protocols frequently, or deal with permission upgrades that I don’t understand, I’d rather spend a bit more gas to go back to the mainnet once, for the sake of ledger-level certainty.

Additionally, now everyone keeps linking ETF capital flows, US stock risk appetite, and crypto market ups and downs, which I find a bit tiring… macro factors can indeed influence sentiment, but the easiest pitfalls for your money are often bridges, contract permissions, and upgrade buttons. Anyway, I’m not pursuing “the most cost-efficient transaction every time” anymore; avoiding pitfalls is enough, and it actually makes me feel more relaxed.