As someone who has cleaned a soft serve machine, its not really long or tedious.
Finally you gotta re-do all of this the following morning! Sure its not like taking apart an iPhone but its not a 5 second job either.
The worst part? This damn machine can only produce one flavor of frosty at a time! The mcdonalds machine avoids all of this, produces 3-4 flavors of milkshakes from one unit and handles soft serve ice cream!