Someone asked me who exactly gets "cut in line"… Honestly, MEV/ordering primarily harms the passive side in liquidity pools: you think you're trading at the price you see on the screen, but in reality, you're being squeezed, slippage increases, and ultimately the LPs end up eating the unintended reverse arbitrage. Stablecoin pools seem the "safest," but being repeatedly exploited actually hurts more. For ordinary traders, it just means paying a bit of an "invisible tax"; for protocols, the data looks good but user experience gradually worsens. Recently, new L1/L2s are offering incentives to attract TVL, and veteran users complain about "mining, harvesting, and selling." I understand: as more people join and congestion kicks in, the value of ordering rights increases, and front-running becomes more aggressive. In the end, those willing to pay to jump the line are the ones who stay. Anyway, now I look at pools not just for APR, but also at trading distribution and abnormal slippage… that’s all for now.