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> I did know that. I just don't consider

That isn't what you said in your post, now is it? You said "We've been here before", but as the article points out, we have not.

In any case,

Traffic lights and apache for the most part do not care what time it is - and certainly not to the second. Market orders are timed to the millisecond, they care very much.

Slewing vs stepping or any other de-synchronization could cause chaos with them, not so with most other fields. You might not care about HFT, but this applies to all orders, not just HFT. And like it or not the stock market plays a large role in everyday life.