I think the biggest problem is most studios (whatever that means nowadays) have the pockets to wait it out for a while and have no problems generating absolute dog shit content and pawning it off on the customers.
Hey don’t skip ahead. We haven’t gotten to that part of the movie yet.
Diablo 2 from launch, I won’t even guess the hours because it’s over 10k easy and that’s just not good. Path of Exile says 4k+ hours as well. I’m an old fart though.
What I used to do was look for high activity free leech, and then let it seed for a few weeks.
I can’t speak highly enough about Home Assistant. I’ve run it for a long long time and it just gets more and more polished.
Bought some stainless steel wire rope over day, like 500’ of it for 25 bucks. I’ve used that shit for everything. Stringing garlic up, strong lights up, garden trellis, hanging anything and everything. Still got a good 100’ left 8 years later.
Openbox all day every day.