While browsing on the subway, I saw a bunch of traces of "cutting in line" on chain data. To be honest, MEV isn't about who is smarter; it's about who holds the sorting power. When an ordinary person clicks a swap, they originally think it's first-come, first-served, but instead they get front-run, slippage increases, or the transaction fails outright, wasting gas. The ones most affected are actually those who don't have time to watch the market or want to avoid complicated tricks.

What's more annoying is that it makes the market experience feel like a spiral of on-chain games: inflation, studios, and prices falling so much that no one wants to play anymore. If the blockchain defaults to you needing to dodge front-running and race ahead, in the end, only professionals and bots will fight it out... I now honestly set targets, split trades, take profits on time, then turn off Twitter, and stop fighting the emotions of sorting. Anyway, I can't compete.