Do you think whales trust their big money to alpha level technologie that might take weeks to transfer to an exchange if at all?
I know and can confirm whales don't care about temporary network congestion, wallet difficulties at all, since they aren't day trading but investing in future, and they do it after due diligence with full confidence, they are not in hurry to take funds out.
just in case if you are into crypto since early days, can you recall beginning of ethereum and monero?
I personally spent like 3 days taking my funds out of monero just because [mymonero] wasn't working and I had to go through downloading whole blockchain and do a lot of stuff to get my funds out of wallet via CLI/CMD.