I recorded gas over a period of time and found that the most unexpected thing wasn’t how expensive it gets during congestion, but that many Layer2 gas strategies are pretty weird. The mainnet gas is clearly the killer, yet some L2s’ experience ends up acting up instead—sync costs go up and down, making people hesitant to cross over casually. Didn’t there just happen to be trouble with a cross-chain bridge recently? Add the oracle’s round of abnormal pricing on top, and those few minutes people spend waiting for block confirmation are really torturous. They call it a trade-off, but I’d actually lean toward slower but steadier—let’s first see the packaging cadence. In any case, when things get urgent, you’ll probably end up paying more for nothing. The more I record, the more it feels like I’m not guessing.