And because Quic is encrypted at a fundamental level, offload likely means needing to share keys with the network card which is a trust concern.
And it’s often incorrect on x64 PCs when IOMMU access is appropriately segmented. See also e.g. Thunderclap: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2019_0...
It may still be true in some cases, but it shouldn’t be taken for granted that it’s always true.
Although I think for Intel CPUs the mmunuded to be disabled for years because their iGPU driver could not work with it. I hope things have improved with the Xe GPUs.