Certainly. But it does add up and it does kill motivation for rapid iteration. :(
and then we're back to the original statement, if you're rapidly iterating hot fixes you have serious problems and likely doing it wrong.
10 minutes to deploy to production should be fine, but rapid iteration shouldn't be happening in production. It sounds more like the complaint is related to running a similar setup in dev, and taking 10 minutes to see changes during development (which is understandably too long).
Yep, that's what I meant. I have no choice but to run a local k8s cluster or else I can't test.