The alternative is we take this current mini-game to its conclusion and find some limit in physics and/or materials science that causes delays between markets t

The alternative is we take this current mini-game to its conclusion and find some limit in physics and/or materials science that causes delays between markets to hit a floor. Then we're doing the same thing, applying a minimum tick rate to trading, except to achieve this tick rate you have to spend X to get the technology. For these sort of things were you know there will be an end with a minimum achievable delay, it just makes way more sense to arbitrarily decide it's X and call it a day and let humanity use its resources on better things, than let this waste of resources continue.