To be honest, I’m pretty fed up with people who hype how great Layer2 experience is. Yes, mainnet Gas is as expensive as first-class airfare, but when you move to L2, you see low fees on the surface—after you do a couple of actions, the hidden costs from cross-chain bridges and the sequencer add up, and in the end you don’t really save much. Not to mention that some L2 sequencers are right there doing backroom stuff—MEV front-running so the retail crowd gets squeezed, and the whole thing looks ugly—yet they still constantly boast about “decentralized ordering and fairness.” Laughable. Fairness is for big miners and market makers; what does it have to do with retail? You ape into some shitcoin—slippage on-chain plus the sequencer cutting in line—and the experience is even worse than just paying mainnet to send it.

Forget it—speaking plainly: don’t treat L2 like it’s the be-all and end-all. Mainnet is expensive but transparent. If your transaction frequency is low and you’re pushing big amounts, just go with mainnet. L2 is suitable if you’re doing high-frequency farming or constantly testing with small capital, but the prerequisite is that you can tolerate a bit of latency and the hidden fees. Either way, don’t get fooled by the “track narrative.” The balance in your wallet is the real truth. As for those discussions about MEV ordering fairness—take them as a joke. If something really could save you money, only you can figure out the numbers and confirm it.