"people"? What people? This OP's experience seems to indicate that there is a lot of patience in "Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and even remote regions of Siberia".
It sounded more like patience was relative to expected wait time. If you expect something to take 20 minutes, then a 2 minute wait isn't much at all. If you expect something to take 2 seconds, then a 10 second wait is quite irritating.
I'm certain you're right but we need to test that :)
the way I read OP was the abandon rate was ~100% previously in areas with high latency/low bandwidth, and his experiment had a non-zero abandon rate that was shrinking as word spread. Perhaps I need to read it more carefully.
