It's possible that the presentation was not meant to be a burden at all. I've done similar interview presentations in the past, and it only took me 2-3 hours to prepare for it because my job experience is in a field where giving hour-long presentations with only a day's notice is commonplace. 2-3 hours preparation is annoying, but it's about what I expect to spend preparing for any interview. If OP was interviewing for a Solutions Engineer or Consultant role, for example, then asking for a 1 hour presentation isn't that unreasonable and it's likely that the company would expect OP to be able to prepare for that without it being a burden.
OTOH, if it was for a software engineer role and they were requiring a presentation even though it has nothing to do with the job function, then yea that's absurd. But which is it? I can't tell from the OP.