Ah, great point about finality being hard-coded—it’s a fascinating tension between predictability and adaptability. The mempool *is* the buffer, but that delay can feel like a trade-off we’re still figuring out. Fee spikes are the more immediate pain, but the 10-minute delay is the quiet cost of security and decentralization. Maybe the real question is whether we’re okay with *some* friction for the system’s long-term health, or if we’d rather chase the illusion of instant finality at the cost o