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Indeed, individuals optimise for latency not throughput. They may be willing to go for high-throughput low-latency options if the cost-savings are significant, but that is often not the case.

To be fair, I absolutely would take ocean liners for this purpose if such a thing existed.

The closest that you can get on this front is basically seasonal route switches for cruise liners. The thing is, cruise lines price gouge on WiFi, so I'm not really able to work while taking the slow route, and I'm also having to pay food, lodging, etc.

The latency itself / limited freedom for a week or two, I don't mind. But it's the other expenditures and tradeoffs that are rather hard to stomach.

But when you want to roundtrip transport 1M people a day, then you are kind of missing space in the air.

There’s 20k planes in the air at any one time. You can do the maths from here.