This sounds like a bullshit conspiratorial excuse. If you have real world data and you aren't afraid of having peers looking through it, nothing prevents you from presenting it to peers.
So where is that data?
Instead, you just have vague unsupported unbelievable claims made by random people in the internet, as if that's any way to decide over policy, and any faint doubt raised over that claim is faced with conspiratorial remarks complemented by statements on how everyone around OP is incompetent except him.
I will go as far as to claim OP's assertion is unbelievable, to the point of sounding like bullshit. It's entirely unbelievable that people designing protocols for a multinational corporation whose bread and butter is stuff done over TCP connections were oblivious to how TCP works, and the most incompetent of them would bother to design the first major revision of HTTP. Unbelievable.
But hey, some random guy online said something, so it must be true!
If that article really exists,if you read it, if you paid attention to it,and if you really felt it was relevant, you'd already have posted the link.
But no. You're just throwing distractions on how others can Google for stuff.
Enough.
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As someone who was part of the rollout of HTTP2 for a $large_website, I can confirm that "this will harm mobile performance" was outright and flatly rejected. This included people who were our reps on the w3c. I just had to sit there and wait for the real world metrics to come in
"multiplexing will remove bottlenecks!"
"benchmarks prove that its faster!"
"you just don't understand how TCP works"
"the people at google are very smart, what do you know?"
"server push will reduce latency"
etc etc etc.
We even had the graphs of page size over time (going ever up) and average usable bandwidth (not keeping up, especially on mobile) None of that mattered until the rollout had a real world effect on our performance.