I don't know where you have been for the last 10 years but NOTHING has improved, my Ivy Bridge CPU with DDR3 RAM has lower latency than anything released today.

I don't know where you have been for the last 10 years but NOTHING has improved, my Ivy Bridge CPU with DDR3 RAM has lower latency than anything released today. SSDs peaked in 2011 with X-25E at 65nm and 100.000 writes per bit. From C64 to today you have 1.000-10.000x per watt... if your Ryzen is 2x better than Intel it's irrelevant in that context. The hard thing now is longevity, since the hardware does not improve. It's over, time to start writing better software!