Doesn't that just mean how quiqly it can burn down your CI pipeline due to a bug introduced deep in the dependcy graph?

I think Webpack 5 is around the corner, which was suppose to speedup Webpack to blazing fast ( With Caching and Hashing if I remember correctly ) .

Not sure if it is up to the speed of Parcel though.

Agreed. Either we ditch the term, or reach a scientific agreement on how many "blazing fasts" there are to a "regular fast".