To pull the example of Discord since the ExHashRing was mentioned in the OP: Needing to hash a few hundred things instead of one thing adds up when you do it a lot of times. They went with consistent hash ring over rendezvous hash because of that; every message needs to do one of these hash ring lookups, also whenever someone connects, they need to do a lot of these hash ring lookups to find all of their servers and friends.
There's plenty of scale below FAANG where efficiency matters.
There's plenty of scale below FAANG where efficiency matters.