That's not what I'm doing. I'm saying if your distro, your hardware, or your setup takes significantly more time, examine why. The hardware part is tough because we're effectively locked into whatever is cheap on the market, everything else is 100% fixable. Fast booting is not really a hard problem, especially in embedded where you know & control the hardware.
Yet, just about any system I've used boots slowly. Your argument is like saying that software bugs are not a real problem because you can simply find and fix them if you look hard enough.
My Framework laptop took 2.423s after starting userspace to be "done", without me making any effort on that. (Measurements for the part before that aren't useful on this setup because my initrd waits for user input passphrase.)
2.423 seconds is on the fast end of what I've seen, congratulations. For most systems I've seen it would be at least 5 seconds and when comparing that to loading a webpage, I would consider closing the tab.
