While it's true that SATA or NVMe would be ideal, I just recently started booting a Pi 4 straight from a Samsung T7 SSD and it's night and day compared to the S

While it's true that SATA or NVMe would be ideal, I just recently started booting a Pi 4 straight from a Samsung T7 SSD and it's night and day compared to the SD card even over just USB. I'm sure we'll get to better interfaces one day, but so far I'm very happy regardless.