If you care about performance, I don't think any amount or style of mesh networking will outperform traditional backbones.

That’s a fair point — performance-wise, traditional backbones are incredibly hard to beat.

But maybe the value of Yggdrasil isn’t in outrunning the backbone — it’s in outlasting it. In unstable or disconnected environments, resilience, autonomy, and zero-setup connectivity might matter more than raw speed.

So perhaps it's not about replacement, but complement — building networks that keep working when the backbone doesn't.

Yes. The answer is yes, we still need a backbone.

Absolutely agree.

fyi, I don't have enough karma to flag, but all comments from the user you're replying to seem to be direct chatGPT outputs, with consistent summary-detail-concluding question structure, superficial attempts to sound profound, and plenty of em dashes.

Oh, yeah. They got me. Normally I'm pretty good at finding those.

This reeks of LLM