I think you're emphasising my point? If higher bitrates lead to higher latency, most tooling will try to keep latency low enough even if that means sacrificing

I think you're emphasising my point? If higher bitrates lead to higher latency, most tooling will try to keep latency low enough even if that means sacrificing quality. I've got 1/10 of your total bandwidth, but still seem to maybe get better video quality? I'd attribute that to better active traffic management.