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It's not just the data transfer. It's also number of connections and the combined load. Scaling theese kind of things can be a nightmare for games doing an auth workflow on launch day and that's largely just text connections over REST.
Musk was an idiot and fired everybody that could have helped prevent/minimize the impact.
Audio is fine afaik
Like comparable to most streaming sites