In a distributed system, why is asynchronous replication generally preferred over synchronous replication when low latency is the primary requirement?

In a distributed system, replication is the process of copying data from a primary server to one or more secondary servers to ensure availability. Synchronous replication requires the primary server to wait for confirmation from the secondary servers that the data has been successfully written before it tells the client that the operation is complete. This wait time is called latency, which is the time delay between sendi....