Maybe people are defining waste differently (equating "high cost" with waste). What you may call waste is in a way the cost of the operation of the network (an

Maybe people are defining waste differently (equating "high cost" with waste). What you may call waste is in a way the cost of the operation of the network (and its properties and guarantees and so on). Waste suggests that there is an easy, equivalent, much more efficient solution around the corner but no one cares and wastes resources instead when they could have been doing the same thing with fewer resources.