[ptx]

The even bigger picture is that we (as people, who all use various services in our daily life) end up with all these services being slow and frustrating, although they do provide value, resulting in an overall frustrating daily experience.

[BoorishBears]

Nothing about what I said is anti-making a service faster, reducing frustration is certainly valuable to a user.

But the simple fact is some of those services simply would not exist in another form.

Another way to look at it is if they could exist in a meaningfully faster form easily, competitors would pick up on that.