This reminds me of Valve’s GCF (grid cache file, officially, or game cache file, commonly). The benefits must have purely occurred on consoles for the reasons y

This reminds me of Valve’s GCF (grid cache file, officially, or game cache file, commonly). The benefits must have purely occurred on consoles for the reasons you outlined, because cracked Valve games that had GCF files extracted ran faster than the official retail releases on PCs!