SaltySalamander

Epic Games is also a private company

Considering the majority of stakeholders in Epic are all public companies, I disagree with this notion. Tim Sweeney owns a bit over 40%, the rest is held by:

Tencent Sony Disney Kirkbi (Lego)

Not very private, I say.

You must be pretty young, because back in the dark days of spinning HDDs a computer would take 5+ minutes to boot.

Those storage freezers are doing nothing the vast majority of the time. Not really a fair comparison.