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by alt227 437 days ago
> The primary purpose of HTTP2 was to allow servers to preemptively push files/resources to clients to avoid round-trip latency; to reduce the reliance on script bundles.

The primary purpose for HTTP2 was to allow multiple simultaneous asynchoronous http calls, which is a massive loading performance boost for most websites. Server push was very much a tacked on afterthought.