nsamuell

The more it uses web standards (e.g. Object.observe), the less magic will be required (e.g. $watch), so I think you're right :)

Bufferbloat is definitely a thing. Most home routers are terrible sources of bufferbloat by default (HTTP browsing crawls to a halt the second torrenting starts ramping up). Thankfully, most home routers have some amount of QoS which can help a _ton_.