That's because it is obvious and intuitive even though it's wrong. In the first year of my undergrad in an assignment I added unlimited buffering to every singl

That's because it is obvious and intuitive even though it's wrong. In the first year of my undergrad in an assignment I added unlimited buffering to every single place that needed buffering. I remember a sense of superiority from all the extra code I wrote to do it. Of course buffering felt correct! That was long before I heard of the word backpressure.