Because most screens are running at 16.6ms refresh rate, composition is vsynced and windows are double-buffered at multiple stages in the whole display pipeline to avoid tearing and other kinds of artifacts. You're naturally going to have 2-3 frames of latency unless you try really hard to avoid it with advanced frame scheduling that won't be worth employing for an office application. You usually optimize application rendering for smoothness (no frame drops, no artifacts, consistent 60 FPS) rather than latency, and doing one usually hurts the other.