In a decentralized network, very few entities are connected directly, and so information musts travel in many hops. This is exascerbated by the fact that your connections aren't chosen at all based on their physically proximity to you. So you have signals that can travel halfway around the world and back a number of times before consensus can be reached.
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i still find it funny how people are making floppy disk excuses.. in a live streaming era
Indeed, that's the point of my previous post.
People claiming that some "12 years ago" decisions about disk storage and internet performance will decide Bitcoin forever is simply ridiculous.
Though I could also point out that the original decision was 32MB per block, not 1MB or 4MB.
As for orphan rates, there will always be orphans, and trying to make Bitcoin avoid orphans for some guy CPU mining with an RPi that will never find a block in 1000 years running his blockchain on crappy internet is just ridiculous.