It was considered: > Then Mary and Ben discussed whether load shedding on the server would help, but in the end, they decided that a thick client in this case

It was considered: > Then Mary and Ben discussed whether load shedding on the server would help, but in the end, they decided that a thick client in this case was acceptable. Just guessing, but it seems that they share the client code between many teams and microservices, so possibly it was just easier to embed the logic in the shared client code. But it seems clear that they consider load shedding to be another way to handle this problem.