Not quite.. see my sibling response. It's probably more accurate to say that some people have thrown a lot of time and energy at the problem. But the market d

Not quite.. see my sibling response. It's probably more accurate to say that some people have thrown a lot of time and energy at the problem. But the market does not value their software; we use slower and less secure alternatives. Slack is a great example. There are probably 99 other chat services that perform better than Slack. (Apparently it makes fans spin on laptops, which is kind of shocking for a chat app.) But the market doesn't necessarily care -- it values the features that Slack provides more. Part of it is a bad network effect. I care about speed, but I might have to use Slack because the people I want to talk to on Slack don't care about speed.