Add to that the fact that they all need SSD's so whatever HDD storage you have is useless now.

Ugh, installing World of Xeen was tough. Needed to free up a whopping 50 MB of space or so. But at least the install of Darkside of Xeen had some dancing stick figures you could look at while swapping floppies.

Given prices of hardware these days devs should definitely be better at this.

They throw in massive poly count models with high resolution textures and ever bigger game worlds, then (on PC) let you scale down the quality.

Only real solution is having high res textures as a separate download which some games do but if the console can handle them anyway, there's less reason, compared to PC where you might have a lower end graphics card that can't handle 4K textures anyway

On consoles, developers still duplicate assets for HDD optimization (faster loading, more storage). Often they don't bother to 'fix' that for PC when ported.