Due to the increasing size of game assets, the time needed for updates is increasing as well. This is (in my experience) mostly due to patching time, where even updates as small as 100Mb can take 2-3h to apply.

In case it's relevant my specs are RTX 3060, both HDDs and SSDs (patching is more noticeable on HDD), AMD Ryzen 5700X and 32Gb of RAM.

In some of the cases, I found out that re-downloading the entire game takes less time than waiting for patching.

I believe that if there was an option somewhere, which would make the client selectively re-download only the affected files or the specified game instead of patching it, it would tremendously speed up the update process.

Best regards