Tonight, another bridge had an incident, and everyone started collectively "waiting for confirmation," basically scared off by the outrageous quotes from oracles. When I do cross-chain work like IBC/message passing, I first silently ask myself who to trust: the finality of the chain itself, whether the light client/validation rules have pitfalls, whether the relay(relayer) will go offline or get stuck with fees, whether the contract/module implementation has boundary conditions, and whether the governance upgrades on the other chain can change the logic at any time. The more "convenient" a bridge is, the more it tends to bundle these trust assumptions so you can't see them.

By the way, here’s how to avoid impulsive trading: when I see a cross-chain opportunity, I first move my hand away from the confirm button, check the block heights and delays on both sides, and wait for one round of confirmation before deciding; if I still want to go for it, I cut my position to a ridiculously small size, treating it as paying tuition. Anyway, the brain is most easily overwhelmed before sleep, so I do it this way first.