Comment by rubiquity

This was already known to be true by Heidi Howard’s research that yielded Flexible Paxos[0], Relaxed Paxos[1], and her more general thesis on Distributed consensus[2] as a whole

0 - https://fpaxos.github.io/

1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517209.3524040

2 - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-935.pdf