Updates on macOS require restarts too. But when I restart, most applications restart exactly in the state I left them.
They take more time and "2 minutes remaining" is just a lie. More likely it is 20 - 60 minutes.
It is the same with a macOS clean install though. Windows 10 takes like 4-5 minutes to do the copying files stuff on an NVMe SSD then another 2 minutes for the "setting up devices" but you can be in the post-install setup bit in under 10 minutes on a decent machine. macOS takes like 30 minutes and the drives in the MacBook Pro are stupidly fast so I just don't understand wtf it is doing.