Cyberpunk is absolutely full of loading screens, they’re just not ONLY in the elevators. Part of the reason they’re saying the engine is a miracle is because of the way it loads.

Basically, if you have a webcam, the game tracks your eyes and every time you’re not looking at the screen (e.g. you’re distracted, you blink, etc.), the game quickly flashes to a loading state and loads of bunch of assets in.

The real smart stuff comes when you don’t have a webcam though! The engine figures out where in the world your pc/console is, and then uses a bunch of meteorological data from that region to calculate how often you’ll need to blink, on average. For instance, it’ll work out how dry or humid the air is, and whether there’s a high pollen count. It’ll figure out how hot your machine is running, and use that to estimate whether you’re in a dusty home or not.

It really is a technological marvel. That’s why it was so buggy on release for a lot of players; the loading hadn’t been fine tuned yet so it was just going haywire and loading all the time.