Exponential back off retries could hide a real issue, but I would estimate something like 99.99999999% of network retries are resolved within the first 2 attem

Exponential back off retries could hide a real issue, but I would estimate something like 99.99999999% of network retries are resolved within the first 2 attempts. Not using retries is optimizing for the astronomically rare case, which is better mitigated by other means