Comparing an encrypted protocol with an unencrypted one is just lame. Furthermore, QUIC doesn't even have all of its feature set turned on, so these comparisons

Comparing an encrypted protocol with an unencrypted one is just lame. Furthermore, QUIC doesn't even have all of its feature set turned on, so these comparisons with unencrypted HTTP are, at best, premature. Also, comparing a single HTTP connection with a SPDY-like connection also misses the point. We like UDP+PK crypto because it gives us zero latency connection setup times, allows mobile devices to change IPs without disrupting their connections, and for us, our average message size is 256 bytes (think: Twitter), and never over 1400 bytes, so every message we send has zero fragmentation. That leaves message reordering and handling dropped packets, something that's trivial given the rest of our protocol.