It's funny how many one second pauses turn out to be less than necessary. How many sysadmins took meaningful action because the system paused when they had an invalid machine uuid?
The "print a message telling the user that we're rebooting, then wait a second to let them read the console before we go ahead and reboot", on the other hand...
If anyone in the OpenBSD world is interested in speeding up your boot process I'd be happy to share tips and code. It's a bit daunting to start with but with some good tools it becomes a lot of fun.
I understand the reasons for no "how-tos". But sometimes they make sense for people like me. I wouldn't mind delving a bit deeper given some direction.