Ah yes, Akamai as always picking features that maximize the money you owe them.
For the vast majority of content (e.g. anything not live), constant bitrate is a terrible idea: it wastes bandwidth in low-action parts of the video and cripples quality in high-action parts of the video. This is why no major non-live video site uses constant bitrate; it's a terrible idea.
Of course, if you want to maximize user quality at all times, you want to maximize utilization of their connection and adapt the bitrate to the bandwidth available. But in reality, bandwidth is expensive, so nobody does this except in live streams.
Ah yes, Akamai as always picking features that maximize the money you owe them.
For the vast majority of content (e.g. anything not live), constant bitrate is a terrible idea: it wastes bandwidth in low-action parts of the video and cripples quality in high-action parts of the video. This is why no major non-live video site uses constant bitrate; it's a terrible idea.
Of course, if you want to maximize user quality at all times, you want to maximize utilization of their connection and adapt the bitrate to the bandwidth available. But in reality, bandwidth is expensive, so nobody does this except in live streams.