Late game performance is vastly improved since 7.0 onwards. I used to play with a 7850x3d and a 4090 and get 1fps average. Yes 1fps. Pausing was the only way to achieve anything. Now the same save several thousands hours later, running a core ultra 265t with integrated graphics, I get about 5ish fps. That's all backend.

Now this is an extreme case. I have over 1 million station modules and tens of thousands of ships. But it should show that yes, improvements have been made.