For example, both Final Fantasy XVI & STALKER 2 take up 152GB & 165GB on my 2TB external SSD. I mean, why are steam games HUGE as f*ck regarding their file sizes lately? Don’t even mention CoD (200GB?!), even with the fastest internet connection: you can’t bypass patience as these things take up time. For me, it took me about 2 days to finish (pause & resume download). I’ve finished installing KCD II (Royal Edition) and that was 85GB (took up 8-12 hours with fast internet, I was binge watching a TV show on Prime Video the entire time).
You can bypass it by not buying such large games. Plenty of good games under 5GB come out all the time.
I had some amazing deck builders come in at less than 1GB.
I’d say this year’s best game so far, that I’ve played anyway, is only 2.13 GB; Escape from Ever After.