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Microsoft is at least partly responsibile for this. Modern Windows loves to dominate your hard drive with background tasks that you didn't ask for, to the point of leaving foreground tasks starved for I/O.
I find Linux to be superior in this area, and I often run modern games from a slow mechanical hard drive with no trouble at all. It's unsurprising that your Steam Deck does just fine with an SD card.
Yeah, I have Steam installed on an SSD in my Kubuntu machine, but it's kinda small, so I have the library pointing to an internal 2Gb HDD. It runs RDR2 flawlessly.