Sort of. At my company, if we removed retries from our services, our reliability would drop precipitously. Something like 99.99% of retries succeed on the secon

Sort of. At my company, if we removed retries from our services, our reliability would drop precipitously. Something like 99.99% of retries succeed on the second try, if there's not a hard service outage. If there is a hard outage, well, not much to do about that.