@Der_Hutmacher The game was made with current-gen consoles and SSDs in particular in mind (If you launch it on anything but an SSD it even gives a warning saying it was designed for them and that things might break) which means they somehow managed to make the PC port without utilizing DirectStorage despite the fact that DirectStorage (or its equivalent) is the only reason the console load times are as snappy as they are.
So they knew the PC version would be SSD-only, they knew the console versions would have DirectStorage equivalents, and they still pushed ahead without it on PC. It boggles the mind.