I tried Drupal CMS both via https://new.drupal.org/drupal-cms/trial and https://www.drupalforge.org/template/drupal-cms.
In both instances, I had a good 3 to 5 minutes waiting where the progress bar was slowly advancing. If this is done locally via DDEV the process is faster, but still takes a good minute.
We could use that time to give key information to people evaluating the tool about some of its features.
As seen below, there is a lot of whitespace during this waiting time:
Install Drupal CMS... wait...
I think that we could add some either gifs or videos showcasing the features of Drupal CMS in that space, or even some text with images that fades in/out.
Add some dynamic content during the install phase.
Example: seconds 7 to 18 on this video https://youtu.be/Dw6_fBZ6D5Y?feature=shared&t=7
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Can this wait until Drupal 11.2 is out? The reason I ask is that core changed the extension system so that a batch install like Drupal CMS's should have far fewer container rebuilds, which should result in a significant performance improvement. It won't get down to seconds or anything like that, but it might be a big enough dent that we'll want to reevaluate what to do during this wait.