I agree that your app is small and fast compared to what others are putting out there, but compared to what software engineering could do if people cared, this is still bloated and slow.
What kind of a comparison is that? People do care, it's just they care about ease of use (not putting strain on your sanity) over some imperceptible startup time difference or space difference on hard drives that get cheaper every day.
I believe Circle K still uses pretty much the same UI, because that mouse-less keyboard interface can be used efficiently with one hand.
Not everything needs to be pretty to work well.
I bet I can get this number lower with some lazy loading but what for? The app is loaded by the time the springboard animation ends, the user interaction isn't likely to start before that.
It's a new App that I try to iterate quickly, so I prefer to keep away of added complexity that optimizations would bring. If it feels quick enough on the lowest end device that I support(which is iPhone 6s because of iOS13) it's alright. The mobile devices are very powerful these days.
I’m certainly not used to that. Mobile launch times are substantially faster than desktop in my experience.