Implementing retries with exponential backoff and jitter is a fault-tolerant design pattern, helping to ensure that an application can handle intermittent failures gracefully by waiting longer between each failed attempt, reducing the likelihood of overwhelming the service with high volumes of requests. Using only retries without backoff could contribute to further overloading the service, potentially exacerbating failure conditions. Static waits or increasing payload size do not address the fundamental issue of handling intermittent failures and can actually worsen the situation.