6 minutes is insanity and must have turned off so many people from playing.. this person deserved far more than $10k
Enough still play it and buy a few micro tractions per month regardless of the load times Dev time is better spent reskinning a hat or something.
But user experience is important. With faster lpad timea they probably could get more players. More players probably means more money, since there are more chances to convert someone from a player to a paying customer.
Perhaps if someone can endure a 6 minute load time they are more likely to buy something in the game (a fan of the series?), but we could say that those who like fast load times also use their wallets fast. But it is pure speculation - we dont have the data. Also obviously Rockstar doesnt have this data - they couldnt A/B test if load time converts to more sales - their game only had bad load times.