Occam's razor is a guide to start with the simpler explanation. If the simpler explanation is not sufficient, you add more elements until it is. My point is, t

Occam's razor is a guide to start with the simpler explanation. If the simpler explanation is not sufficient, you add more elements until it is. My point is, the Internet rerouting around damage doesn't explain the slowdown, mostly because it happened days after, not immediately, meaning the damaged infrastructure was not critical for the global internet. The attacks unleashed a huge intelligence operation, and it's reasonable to expect a parallel intelligence operation online. If the latter caused a traffic bottleneck or not, we can't know because it was never addressed, it's speculation on my part.