I can second the 2s-ish response time (just did a couple of measurements) from Germany. Doesn't bother me, though.
What does bother me is the occasional failure to load anything at all, solvable with F5 key. But, being able to rank pages, or rewrite reddit.com to old.reddit.com more than compensates for this.
Interesting, as I see a lot of other comments from Europeans saying they don’t notice this delay, maybe it’s Germany-specific?