Let's say we have a primitive system with total ordering and single static coordinator per each replica-set. And we want to update a global counter from every n

Let's say we have a primitive system with total ordering and single static coordinator per each replica-set. And we want to update a global counter from every node. Now since counter is global it lives on a single replica-set and every node has to communicate with this one coordinator. Be it 4 nodes or 4000, still one coordinator. If we drop total ordering and use something like gossip protocol to communicate between nodes, we can merge this counter everywhere in the system as it propagates, eliminating all unnecessary communications and distributing communications in the network. So, yeah, global consensus fundamentally limits both throughput and latency.