I used to work for a cloud provider that helped bootstrap business projects, research and start-ups, first in france then in the later years, all over europe.

Do you know how long it took to start a service company in France in 2018? Half a day. And the government own service that help a lot with online identity and paper filling wasn't even online yet, i'm pretty sure that if i want to start a limited company, and make this company employ myself as a freelancer/self-employed (don't know the exact translation), i'd be able to do it in a day.