What irony? To me, this isn't irony at all. It shows that google can't defeat the algorithmic complexity of things like consensus and shared state editing, and

What irony? To me, this isn't irony at all. It shows that google can't defeat the algorithmic complexity of things like consensus and shared state editing, and so gracefully degrades functionality. That shows a very good understanding of scaling - realizing any solution you choose has limits and tradeoffs, and thinking about and handling those limit cases sanely ahead-of-time, rather than waiting for it to fall over and hoping for the best.