Comment by Quarrelsome

Are retries bad? These are the sort of reason they make me generally uncomfortable. I appreciate they might be useful in scenarios where connectivity is inherently problematic (e.g. mobile connectivity), but for a super connected and very desktoppy service I'd rather not retry much, if at all. As it obscures it when stuff has genuinely gone wrong, and this worst case scenario is tragic.

I feel like I'm mildly stupid in trying to out retries as heresy but I'm not sure.