Yes it is. My work laptop is 8th gen i7 (yeah, I know) and every time I have to recompile the whole project I'll have few minutes of downtime. It's too little time to do something else but too much to just stretch, yawn and continue. It's ridiculous. Yeah, most things can be solved throwing more horsepower at it, but currently it's as slow as gradle building with my java projects ffs.