I think the implication is: TCP kind of assumed you will either keep transmitting, or close the connection. The many video-streaming type workloads, the connec

I think the implication is: TCP kind of assumed you will either keep transmitting, or close the connection. The many video-streaming type workloads, the connection will go idle, for seconds or even minutes at a time. If the loss is at the tail end of some activity, before a period of idle, the recovery takes a lot longer than it would if there are further activity on the connection.