Does long term play mean:

Increased amount of hourly playtime before problems arise? e.g. 2 hours til lag upgraded to 3 hours before lag hits.

Increased amount of overall playtime before problems arise? e.g. 60 hours of total time upgraded to 80 hours before lag hits.

Only time will tell I guess.........

Its hourly playtime. I got the patch a few hours ago, game lags just like pre-patch.

Rest for a full month in-game. Giving the patch the time it should take to refresh the longest persisting cells then let us know the effect.

I will say waiting in game helps. Went from 11mb to 9536kb from resting a day