That's a straw man argument. Your new requirement is physically impossible. No software team can break the laws of physics.
So the real question is what exactly do you mean by "immediately"? There are many answers with different pros/cons and cost. And I bet the solution won't impact 99% of the software Facebook has already written.
My new requirement is NOT physically impossible. I did not mean "immediately" as in "zero milliseconds", it meant strong read-after-write consistency. It makes facebook so slow and unscalable as to be unusable. Facebook deliberately decided that stale reads are worth it for responsiveness and scale.