It's a hybrid meaning it may struggle in direct competition with pure loss based algorithms. CUBIC, the Linux default, is somewhat notorious in causing bloat i

It's a hybrid meaning it may struggle in direct competition with pure loss based algorithms. CUBIC, the Linux default, is somewhat notorious in causing bloat issues but these things tend to play out like an arms race. BBR is another hybrid and has tons of heuristics and tuning to try and adapt to these arms race conditions.