Yes, but I think this workflow is dependent on an assumption that there’s no cost overhead for random accesses, which only became true in the current console ge

Yes, but I think this workflow is dependent on an assumption that there’s no cost overhead for random accesses, which only became true in the current console generation, with mandatory fast SSDs. As long as you were potentially seeking around a spinning platter, you needed to have way more control over data locality than was possible with something like SQLite.