Latency is a feature
Users do not experience throughput. They experience the pause between an action and the evidence that it worked.
Some opening argument for "latency is a feature", stated plainly enough that the rest of the piece has something to push against.
The observation
The pattern shows up often enough that it is worth naming. It is easy to miss because each instance looks like a local decision rather than an example of anything general.
What follows from it
Once you accept the premise, a few consequences arrive whether or not you wanted them. Most of the interesting work is in deciding which of them to accept and which to design around.
Where it breaks down
Every rule of this kind has a domain. The failure mode is applying it outside the conditions that made it true, which is how good advice becomes bad practice.