When I tried playing 2077, BG, or Elden Ring they basically ran like they were on a Potato. I’m surprised anyone could do anything playable on those games.

I’m sorry, friend.

If any of those deployments included code you or your team wrote, I highly encourage archiving it in VCS somewhere, even if only internally.

Also do a formal write up of all the deployments and why each tech choice was made.

Your hard won knowledge and skills should be preserved somewhere.

Because, sadly, I more often than not do NOT have access to a debugger.

Learning how to write good debugging print messages is a skill. And nicely transfers to writing good debug log messages. Which makes diagnosing user issues much easier.