I now mainly treat the mainnet as a "settlement layer": only go there for opening positions, withdrawing coins, or exchanging large amounts, all other interactions are done on L2. To put it simply, I’d rather go through more steps than see a single approve + swap transaction that directly burns a meal’s worth of gas... Impatient people really get taught a lesson by gas fees. Usually, I focus on two things: make sure the bridge path isn’t taking the wild route (prefer official bridges / big bridges), and don’t randomly select high priority fees for packing transactions, rushing in as an MEV extraction tool is very costly. Recently, everyone’s been talking about modularization and DA layers, developers are excitedly hyped, but users only care about: does my transaction confirm immediately with a tap, and don’t mess with the fees. Anyway, my compromise is: use the mainnet less, run more on L2, check congestion before transferring, and save a little here and there.