[CaliforniaKarl]

TBH I feel the same. And for development on my laptop, that seems fine. For the Python package I'm working on how, a single run of pytest takes less than five seconds.

Where things get annoying is when I push to GitHub and Tox runs through GitHub Actions. I've set up parallel runs for each Python version, but the "Prepare Tox" step (which is where Python packages are downloaded & installed) can take up to 3 minutes, where the "Run Tox" step (which is where pytest runs) takes 1½ minutes.

GitHub Actions has a much better network connection than me, but the free worker VMs are much slower. That is where I would look at making a change, continuing to use pip locally but using uv in GitHub Actions.