Etherscan is not 100% proof service. Here is a website that shows the incident history and the status of etherscan: https://etherscan.freshstatus.io/.

For example, in 2024 December in the last 30 days there has been 8 incidents involving maintanence for Web and API.

Alternatively, you can use evm explorer to check for the transaction status: https://evmexplorer.com/transactions/mainnet/0xe7d97a52f6396b2e344ecd363b41c600165c81481f9fc482356ac1f3e13d0146