HTTP/2 was designed for high latency networks. It supports stream multiplexing and headers compression to significantly shrink page load time over the internet.

HTTP/2 was designed for high latency networks. It supports stream multiplexing and headers compression to significantly shrink page load time over the internet. It has very limited use on the local network. Regarding server-side push, it brings about as many issues as benefits and is often counter-productive. Hopefully it will totally disappear when Early Hints are standardized (addressing the same benefits without the issues). That said, we still want to address server-side H2 in 1.9 to address the CDN type of workloads where the origin servers might be far away. But that's less important.