And that's fine - there are a lot of users here for whom this small update will be satisfactory, and for some (like yourself) that have a much more technical understanding of sites, you're going to want more meat to the updates. All you need to do is ask or PM an admin politely - if they're too busy, they might not be able to answer right away, but empathy and friendliness will get you far.
Im just asking for context.
Its different optimizacions changing mysql to cassandra, to buy servers, to cache things. So I could expect more or less lag in what?
And that's fine - there are a lot of users here for whom this small update will be satisfactory, and for some (like yourself) that have a much more technical understanding of sites, you're going to want more meat to the updates. All you need to do is ask or PM an admin politely - if they're too busy, they might not be able to answer right away, but empathy and friendliness will get you far.