The need for aqm is dependent on the status quo. Most providers nowadays use red/pie in the last mile and buffers-inducted delay rarely exceeds 100ms; much less

The need for aqm is dependent on the status quo. Most providers nowadays use red/pie in the last mile and buffers-inducted delay rarely exceeds 100ms; much less so when it became clear that flow-queueing would be required and possible. Also multiple queues with codel on them have found their way into some wifi stack’s to deblot this access layer