There are legit use-cases for "fire-and-forget"-protocol. E.g. anything that is more about "hey, here is a new value, just like the past 100.000 I sent within t

There are legit use-cases for "fire-and-forget"-protocol. E.g. anything that is more about "hey, here is a new value, just like the past 100.000 I sent within the last second" than about "here is a critical command where it would really suck if we didn't know about it not arrive at its target system. Not caring about whether every single transmission arrives is a totally legitimate technological choice and it can have some tangible benefits when it comes to throughput, latency etc. As with every piece of technology UDP gets problematic when you are ignorant towards its limitations and misapply it.