What you are describing is called “quantization”. It has some disadvantages, one of which is that people tend to disable it the second they hit a use case that

What you are describing is called “quantization”. It has some disadvantages, one of which is that people tend to disable it the second they hit a use case that requires better performance. It is also sometimes possible to distinguish “doing nothing and waiting for a timer” from “actively computing the result” if you have other access (eg you can measure response time by making another connection.)