Muscle cars are slower going around a twisty race track than a standard sports cars, but are supposed to be good at going fast in a straight line, think of those desert interstate pictures where the highway stretches straight to the horizon. I don’t think there are many legal outlets for taking advantage of what muscle cars are supposed to do.
The connection may be good enough to surf, but if a company says you must have Ethernet to work in their call center, they will be monitoring latency loss and jitter and wifi will be noticed, even if it’s some kind of tether / travel router.
I got a smartwatch recently and after describing using/wearing it my sister said “you turned yourself into a tamagotchi”. Might not have an avatar, but it’s fairly gamified.
I think it’s more about the fraud rate than pure prudishness. On one hand you have real hackers testing stolen cards. On the other, found out spouses claiming they’ve no idea about charges and charging back.
All they care about is their cut, but they don’t get it here as often as with traditional sectors.
How fast do your wheels go? Being in space is more about going sideways fast than being high up. Orbital mechanics are weird.