The problem is that available disk space is growing exponentially over the years with a current doubling time of around 18 months for flash drives. And therefore repository size has been as well. What today are 1 GB repositories fairly predictably will be 10+ GB repositories in 5 years. And 100+ GB in 10 years. Which means that the period of locking your computer predictably will go from minutes to hours to days in the same time period.

What is kinda OK today is going to definitely not be OK going forward. This algorithm has to get fixed.