On top of that, you don't get answers by just posting numbers and blaming Apple. Numbers do not mean anything without context. It would be really interesting

On top of that, you don't get answers by just posting numbers and blaming Apple. Numbers do not mean anything without context. It would be really interesting to understand what applications folks with both higher and lower numbers use daily. And what their developer habits are. Do they use a specific browser or a specific toolchain? But ultimately, someone should probably write a little app or daemon that can just keep an eye on what specific processes are doing disk i/o. I think if people ran that for a while and then posted _that_ output, there would probably be some better answers.