NASDAQ closed Friday at 16:00. Base kept producing blocks, five every second, straight through the weekend. Nothing trading on @base over those two days needed 200ms. That is the interesting part, not an argument against it. Infrastructure always arrives before the thing that needs it. Telecom laid enormous amounts of fiber in the late nineties for traffic that did not exist, most of it sat dark for years, and the companies mocked for building it ended up owning the floor that streaming and cloud were later poured onto. Capacity comes first. You cannot ask a developer to build something that needs a clock the chain does not have yet. So what actually shows up to use five blocks a second? Not a person clicking buy. Humans cannot perceive 200ms and equity markets keep office hours. Agents paying per API call keep no hours at all, and a liquidation that fires in the first block after a price update cares enormously about that gap. The capacity is not idle. It is early, which is a different word. Every build ahead of demand gets used eventually. It is just rarely used by whoever it was announced for.