[MaxGabriel]

Another benefit, queues can enforce ordering, and limit concurrency.

This can be helpful for avoiding resource contention, or hitting an API limit.

[remram]

Queue can also allow batching. It might be that you need to consume or pack or ship N items at a time, otherwise you're losing money. Trying to aim for minimal latency would literally hurt your business.

This article obviously has a very specific kind of workload/service/target in mind that they fail to define and they overgeneralize. This is bad advice in many situations that they failed to imagine.