Through persistence, jim gettys bugged enough smart people to care, until he found me. Through our persistence, we found over 500+ other
people to participate on the mailing list, came up with ways to make wifi and routers much more performant, got 1000s of researchers involved on google scholar,
formed an IETF working group, got 5 RFCs published, the cable industry to adopt pie in DOCSIS, and all the third party firmwares running fq_codel by default, as well as dozens of commercial products, now including mikrotik.
In particular, gamers are our allies. They really care about low latency, all the time. This was one of my favorite pieces a gamer had done about bufferbloat (and I hope someone does something similar for mikrotik): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-g2P3R84dw Somewhere, in some C suite, at your ISP and others, is an exec with a kid, that will care about this stuff.
Also there is a strong business case to fix bloat in reducing the complaints about speed to customer support. As one example, an small ISP I worked with recently deployed libreQos and immediately freed up a whole body that had been answering speed complaints, to do something else (which ended up being updating everything they could to routerOS7 or openwrt, and configuring cake!)
So while your, single, coherent complaint might seem like a drop in the bucket, a futile waste of time, I’ve been at this for 12 years now, and there are now billions and billions of machines that are behaving better for all of us, sticking at it, and sticking it to the man.
“There is no try, only, do” - Yoda.
