alt Hacker News> People stopped caring about ulta-low latency first connect times back in the 90s.
They did? That's certainly going to be news to the people at Google, Mozilla, Cloudflare, etc. who put enormous amounts of effort into building 0-RTT into TLS 1.3 and QUIC.
I did a large data analysis of DNS caching times across the web. Hyperscalers are the only ones who care and they fix that with insanely long DNS caching.