You bring up some good points, but it’s worth pointing out that prediction markets experienced a tsunami of adoption (monthly volume is up ~8x since 2025). Naturally, there will be growing pains which is why Polymarket made a number of structural changes dating back to March.
As a builder in the space, I’d say Polymarket’s comms around maintenance have gotten better over the past few weeks. Their status page didn’t even exist a few months ago.
We love Kalshi and build on it too — trade both on Stand — but an on-chain trading experience is not apples-to-apples with traditional financial rails even if it seems like it from an end user experience.