Lately, I've been really obsessed with on-chain transactions, honestly, MEV is just about someone being able to see the queue earlier and cut in line to change the order. Who does it affect? Small users see it most directly: they clearly click to swap tokens, but end up losing slippage; market makers/arbitrageurs consider it "fair competition," but ordinary people feel like they've been secretly taxed. What's even more annoying is that during the testnet phase, with the incentives and point expectations, everyone was spamming interactions and betting whether the mainnet would issue tokens. A bunch of bots turned the ordering into a seat-snatching game, and the sense of fairness was directly diluted.

I'm not regretful about the outcome, but about not considering myself as the one being cut in line back then, and setting things so casually... Now I’d rather do fewer trades than risk losing on slippage or failed retries, and think things through carefully first. That’s how I’ll proceed for now.