Game loading time immediately doubled after Feb update

For reference, I'm running a water cooled Ryzen 7 7700X, 64GB DDR5 @ 6000mhz, an RTX 3070Ti OC, and the game sits on it's own gen 5 NVMe SSD rated at (up to) 10,000mb/s, this is a separate internal drive only for my sims game and mod files and the drive never hits above 50% capacity. I'm giving this for reference for anyone wondering if my system requirement could be the issue. 

I've tested and timed this with and without my mod folder, however, before the update my game took 2min 30sec - 3min to load with 30k mod and cc files. Immediately after updating, this time went up to between 4min 30sec to 5 min. Mind you I spend a lot of time organizing my mod and cc folder to ensure everything is up-to-date. 

I ran this same test without my mod folder installed, after repairing the game (to ensure no changes were made to any game files due to mods), and the game went from loading in within less than 30 seconds to a massive 1min 30 sec to 2min. 

I ran this test on a new save as well and made sure the number of current saves files I had in my game was under 5 and had the same results. 

Something happened with the last update where the loading time of the game was massively impacted for most (if not all) players. I'm not going to get into the disappointment I have in a development team that's been working on the same game for 11 years that clearly doesn't play test their updates before they release them or how a team of like 200 developers could manage to de-optimize a game (well... I guess I did), but something is very wrong with this update as it's impacting players with higher and lower end systems alike.