fuel pressure dropping over time

They also do things like pulse width modulation on the electric fuel pumps. Which makes the fixed orifice return much less of a restriction. If you can reduce pump output when the engine doesn’t need it everything works better. Less heat in the pump and the fuel and a lot less return. The big manufacturers do a lot of testing and have narrowed it down pretty well.

Technology on a lot of things just keeps getting better and better.....but I think we've gone too far with computers.....but that's for another discussion. LOL