Recently, I keep seeing people criticizing MEV front-running as unfair, but I think it's more important to first understand: who is actually affected? When an ordinary person manually executes a swap and gets front-run, it’s indeed frustrating, but more often than not, you think you're trading with the "market," when in fact you're fighting against a bunch of order-snatching bots... To put it simply, on-chain transactions are never about queuing up to buy bubble tea.

What's more subtle is that many projects tout "fair launch" as a selling point, but once inflationary tokenomics and studio teams come in, the price spiral begins. Whether you front-run or not, it won't save the situation. Sorting is just the last step that gets blamed when things go wrong.

My current habit is to check the mempool or simulate slippage before placing large orders. If I can split the order, I split it; don’t try to fight directly. First, revoke the authorization of a few old contracts to avoid more headaches later.