Why Consistency Bugs Destroy Trust Faster Than Latency
Users tolerate slow loads. They don't tolerate lost progress. A 16-day streak reset at midnight costs more than 300ms of latency ever could. At 3M DAU, eventual consistency creates 10.7M user-incidents per year, putting $6.5M in annual revenue at risk through the Loss Aversion Multiplier. Client-side resilience with 25× ROI prevents trust destruction that no support ticket can repair. This is the fifth constraint in the sequence.