Wouldn't T4 have been a better name? sure it does create the risk of a U5, but prequels are not usually better. (Unless you love endless discussion about intergalactic politics).
Three years ago I sat in front of a whiteboard with some folks and we sketched out the future roadmap for Cloudflare Workers. Here's a picture of that whiteboard: https://imgur.com/a/nSnrT15
We went with "R2" because it better reflects the fact that we want it to be S3 minus one thing: egress fees.
I imagine most people who complain about intergalactic politics in the prequels must have never gotten to the scene in A New Hope where people just sit around and discuss the dissolution of the galactic senate and the political reordering of the galaxy.
We went with "R2" because it better reflects the fact that we want it to be S3 minus one thing: egress fees.