I agree, and for the same reason that people should only use relaxed consistency models for atomics in their code if they really know what they are doing, there

I agree, and for the same reason that people should only use relaxed consistency models for atomics in their code if they really know what they are doing, there really is a need and they have appropriate testing. It's good that the option is available, but the headaches that you can get yourself if you don't know exactly what you are doing are real. Good luck debugging these types of Heisenbugs. You'll need it.