For many users it's not qualitatively faster, as most workloads (booting, web browsing, even most video game load times) are small-to-medium random reads domina

For many users it's not qualitatively faster, as most workloads (booting, web browsing, even most video game load times) are small-to-medium random reads dominated by processing overhead. Image/video editing, bulk file transfer, and threaded IO are the key benefits of NVME.