I’d love to know why people are downvoting you. You’re completely right - a minor update that would take 2 minutes on Windows or previous macOS versions now requires a 2 GB download and a 15-20 minutes install process.
I don't think the install duration is new. Most of the security updates on MacOS 10.15 have taken about 15-20 minutes to install on my 2020 MBP. And the first stage claims that it will only be a couple of minutes. Annoying as hell.
If you think about the amount of TV in hours people watch on a daily basis via streaming services, it’s weird to me that a 2 GB OS patch could be considered a problem.
Data transfer isn’t a finite resource like oil or gas.
That doesn't mean that we should just ignore efficiency. Smaller downloads means less bandwidth required on apple's side as well.
This also ignores that not everyone has stellar connection speeds, and that some people -do- have bandwidth caps (also, let's ignore that people are often mobile). Developers really need to stop making assumptions about people's hardware or internet speeds... and just do their jobs and make efficient designs. Maybe one day everyone will have super beefy machines on fiber optic networks with 10gb nics, but that's not the reality as of now.
If a patch needs to be 2gb, then so be it. But if it could be 100mb, then that's certainly better and something to strive for.
