I can understand the value of a globally distributed content-addressable store! But the page in question leads with Filecoin, is on the Filecoin Foundation’s ow

I can understand the value of a globally distributed content-addressable store! But the page in question leads with Filecoin, is on the Filecoin Foundation’s own site, and still doesn’t address my question (which, again, is why it has to be in space to introduce latency).