"most projects never get close to the point of real suffering due to inefficient serialization" Individual projects are fine and no you don't personally need e

"most projects never get close to the point of real suffering due to inefficient serialization" Individual projects are fine and no you don't personally need efficient anything. But as an industry that serves a wide range of need (people from the 3rd world, embedded systems etc), we do have the need for things that become standards to be efficient, call that lowest common denominator. Why build efficient cars or batteries if we are currently fine with them? Why go for 5G when I can do everything just fine on 4G? Could it be because when inefficiency becomes standard it compounds? What if you can have 5G perceived speed right now if all Internet protocols were binary?