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Agreed on light speed (latency). But the majority of the consuming applications need to process that data. If we have enough data to process, latency is only visible until the first initial bytes. After that it should look seamless to consuming application.

In what use cases all remote data is required in real-time?

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It's very rare that you are able to just ingest data in a serial fashion For most scenarios, you need to jump between locations

Think an index, reading different files, etc.

Then the latency dominates

not necessary all data, but random data access would make you (or your application) feel the latency.

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