Welcome to late stage capitalism where air should be monetized at this point. You could make a lot of money paying people to breath and taking away all of the supply. Obviously we failed at something if the air is still free.

Benchmark both cpu and gpu. It might be one of them failing. Check temperatures with the benchmark as well. Also test memory. I’m going to assume it’s throttling or your gpu is having issues. CPU would be obvious because it wouldn’t just be gaming that’s messing up. Normally if it’s only under heavy load it’s because of high usage applying a stress somewhere that’s forcing symptoms of throttling etc.

Don’t forget the children

I disagree with your last point. A lot of companies should have sunk in covid and been consumed by more prepared ones. The governments didn’t want it to happen and they proved we actually live in a social net capitalist economy. This way if rich people accidentally lose we can remember socialism exists for them alone.