That's true too, this approach isn't limited to Reed-Solomon (or MDS codes). For non-MDS codes the fetch logic becomes a little more complicated (you need to wa

That's true too, this approach isn't limited to Reed-Solomon (or MDS codes). For non-MDS codes the fetch logic becomes a little more complicated (you need to wait for a subset you can reconstruct from rather than just the first k), but that's not a huge increase in complexity.