Why is the Patch for Windows Store version MUCH larger than the steam updates? (3552 was a 17GB Download on Gamepass vs 200mb on steam)

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Interesting, that’s the reason why the updates are too slow to install on Steam

I’d rather to download a 1.7 GB file than a 40 MB that will take ages to extract

Steam updates unusually slow

For some reason, this game specifically updates extremely slowly on Steam. I have no issues with other games, but this game just took 19 minutes to install the latest 264.3MB update. Installing the game initially took forever. It doesn’t seem to be the downloading (which was nearly instant) but the preallocating and installation. Someone else reported the same issue during the beta, so it’s almost certainly the game and not our computers or internet. What’s the deal?