If you're cutting release builds often enough that the extra minute or two is hampering your productivity, you may have bigger issues with software development.
For me, it is generally > 2 minutes, and “release build” cover any build that leave your machine, e.g. nightly builds, beta builds, test builds to a specific user to track down some issue, etc.
Signing the agreement is also not just clicking “Agree”, you have to hunt for the contract online first. Last time I did this, their 2FA was down, so just logging in took me about a minute.
It feels like a lot of friction that serves absolutely no purpose, which makes it so extremely infuriating.
This is from the same company whose former CEO pressured a developer to reduce the boot time of the Macintosh (and got a 28 second speedup).
Some people (are they the minority? probably?) cut release builds frequently enough for it to be a big pain point.
> and so you have to sign in and accept an agreement - [which isn't] a big deal
It probably is though. Have _any_ agreements you've accepted in the last, say, 5yrs not had blatantly overbearing or malicious terms?