I feel like that meme works here:

You: Don’t use Claude because it’s Electron.

Me: Don’t use Claude because it is AI related.

We are not the same.

Not quite as that its user-created and submitted.

But yeah lots of packages have a -bin counterpart that will install a lot quicker than compiling it for yourself.

One suggestion is to look for -bin versions of the packages you want. Those are precompiled and should install only marginally slower than a regular pacman package.