[tialaramex]

I don't agree with your characterization of these algorithms as "worse".

They have a desirable property. If you needed a wait-free algorithm, and this is a wait-free algorithm it's not "worse" for you than an existing algorithm that isn't wait-free, regardless of whether it's slower, or more memory intensive or whatever. You needed wait-free and this is wait free.

Why is wait-free desirable? Well, unlike a lock-free algorithm, the wait-free algorithm makes progress in defined time for everybody and it might be that it's actually much worse if anybody is stalled than for the averages to be bad for example.

If you mean "fast on average" say that. If you mean (as often C++ programmer do) "Validates my feeling of self-worth" then say that. I don't know whether anybody wants to pay you more money to validate your self-worth, but at least you're being honest about your priorities.