Well, in all the threads, they’re describing situations with lag. That is, they’re equating eventual consistently with the lag, and implying it’s therefore bad,

Well, in all the threads, they’re describing situations with lag. That is, they’re equating eventual consistently with the lag, and implying it’s therefore bad, when eventual consistency can include unnoticeably small lag. And thus it’s the lag that they’re actually bothered by, not the EC per se. Hence my clawed out hair.