Comment by Grombobulous

What you’re saying makes a ton of sense on an individual case basis, but now multiply that by every employee or customer who has ever interacted with Nvidia with a bone to pick.

No company can just settle with every person who decides to litigate them, especially ones that are seen as large targets who can afford to pay.

The statute of limitations is there to keep the process fair, because that defendant can spend decades discarding or losing old documents and exonerating pieces of evidence, witnesses can die or forget events in the past, etc.