What is often overlooked

Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there’s no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.

Ntsync is great and there will be performance improvement. But not exactly massive

XDA was not always this sensationalist. With that said, I always welcome performance improvements.

My old ass remembers when XDA was a place where you learned how to put Android on your windows phone

That was the XDA forums, I never found their site very usefuly, but maybe that’s just me.