That's because game devs optimize for the most common denominator hardware gamers have at home, which were mostly quad core chips with 8 threads until very rece

That's because game devs optimize for the most common denominator hardware gamers have at home, which were mostly quad core chips with 8 threads until very recently. 96+ thread pool is way outside the norm for the average gamer or consumer, so you can't expect to be surprised that game devs ignore the 0.01% of gamers running server/workstation CPUs with this insane thread count.