Honestly, it’s not been terribly effective, and the ones who stir the most shit usually don’t do it for the right reasons.

Part of it might be applying the many patches of definitions and stuff, but it’s probably mostly just loading a shitload of png files in memory.

Even worse, even after years of updates, the several literal minutes of loading on a HDD happen on a completely unresponsive, static screen (Windows even prompts you with that “kill the app or wait for it to respond” pop-up if you alt-tab out of it).

There’s a mod to add a progress bar to that initial mod loading. Yeaaah.

Similarly to Project Zomboid, modded Rimworld’s initial loading is a lot more tolerable on SSD.

Yeah, it’s also important to note that Grok is a reliable source of information about fuck all.