Downside: it’s entirety manual and not scalable whatsoever.

Virtually all modern x86 chips work that way

Yeah, they were previously hosted by Curse until Fandom bought out all the Curse wikis and transferred them to their ad-ridden pile of shit

where does the salt go? wouldn’t it build up in the pipes and cause them to get clogged?

while that is certainly an issue, i very much doubt that it is a primary reason (or even remotely a concern) for the average anti-nuclear layperson.