Recently, people keep asking me, "Isn't the on-chain data transparent? Why does what I see differ from others'..." Basically, what you see is actually the version provided by nodes/RPC/indexers, and they can all be a bit behind. RPC has caching and queues, nodes are still catching up on blocks, and indexers sync first then organize, so during congestion or reorganization, a delay of a few minutes or even longer is normal.

These days, testing the testnet for points and guessing whether the mainnet will issue tokens is more obvious: someone screenshot and said, "I clearly interacted but there's no record," but it might just be that the index hasn't updated yet. My habit is to be a bit slower: before key operations, switch between two RPCs, check the raw transaction, wait for multiple confirmations before drawing conclusions... slowing down actually makes things easier. When it comes to funds, slow is fast.