It's time to join the present and buy an SSD, people.

Got one! And it made less tolerant of long wait times, I'm afraid.
But that's the point.
With a SSD this is definitely NOT a game with "long waiting times". Most loads are over in a matter of few seconds.
I do have an SSD, although i will say that not everyone may able to purchase one. They can be quite expensive.
They were actually getting dirty cheap over time.
They are on the rise again now (like pretty much anything hardware-related, really) but that's just a byproduct of the weird times we are living in.