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You couldn't crank your CPU in the olden days, it'd make games run in fast forward.
To be fair, unlocking the frame rate on console-to-PC ports still fast-forwards many games including Nier: Automata or breaks the physics like in Skyrim.
It doesn't have to be this way, any more, but it still is because… Lack of expertise? I really can't think of anything else?