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Actually, if you are pushing enough data through the connections to need to consider offload, can you actually afford to the time to recover from packet loss?
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I just wanted to mention that high bandwidth is only one motivation for offloading.
Another reason is for lowest latency, and the applications may happen to have extremely low bandwidth requirements. (e.g. maybe you pick 10G over 1G because you want your messages to move 10x as fast, not because you want to transfer 10x the data).
The reason for TCP over UDP is probably due to external constraints (interfacing with legacy systems).
I agree that UDP is much simpler and possibly entirely adequate in closed [new] systems.
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