Aye. Granted, I'm on Dynamis so my experience is going to be wildly different from, eg. Aether, but I've only had one occasion of long queues, and that was when Aether died. And even then, it was steady progress, unlike the Login Roulette of Endwalker.
I've been playing Heart of the Machine, and really enjoying it. It's a fascinating 4x ish in a future city, in a bit of an inversion of AI Wars (same developer). Before playing, I was merely intrigued, but now I'm excitedly awaiting where it goes. It was, however, initially difficult to figure out what to do. Perhaps more UX is going to be useful here.
For the purposes of OPs problem (P v NP), it considers not particular solutions, but general algorithmic approaches. Thus, we consider things as either Hard (exponential time, by size of input), or Easy (only polynomial time, by size of input).
A number of important problems fall into this general class of Hard problems: Sudoku, Traveling Salesman, Bin Packing, etc. These all have initial setups where solving them takes exponential time.
On the other hand, as an example of an easy problem, consider sorting a list of numbers. It's really easy to determine if a lost is sorted, and it's always relatively fast/easy to sort the list, no matter what setup it had initially.
Coincidentally, I do work on embedded devices, but as mentioned by ferret, most embedded stuff nowadays is (I think?) an Arm variant. Most all of the device code I write is C++ though; no need to get into assembly land unless clang screws something up, but that hasn't happened yet thankfully. That said, in the future, this may change as we optimize certain imaging algorithms further.
There was an episode of PBS Space Time on the holographic principle in general recently, and I believe they've also discussed the black hole thing as well.
I usually play clerics (busted good), but for my current campaign I'm playing a human fighter, and it's a ton of fun.
"What's your character do?"
"Charges into the fray, naturally"
Rather fun to play a character that's a foil for my typically conservative & trepidatious teammates.
For any not in the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman