[elitepleb]

>it should be able to do that job just fine even if you keep throwing lots of packets at it, right?

there's circumvention techniques that abuse the fact that they can't: https://upb-syssec.github.io/blog/2023/record-fragmentation

the intentionally terrible speeds are decided by software heuristics, so antisocial limits are fought with antisocial techniques, with continued brutality being enough to skip the slow deep packet inspection path via force

[mort96]

If that's actually the case, then using this congestion control algorithm for that purpose is okay I suppose.