Half hour? For anything with more than one Russian seeder you just wait ~60 secs for the first couple bytes then you can begin copying your Linux ISO to disk immediately.
Kinda depends on what your downloading. Movies in the 2160p resolution are getting into the 10s of Gigs. And you still need a seed with comparable bandwidth serving the file you want.
People are kinda weird when it comes to habits. A lot of people have seen my kodi setup that i have been using and tailoring for a decade. They like it, and when i ask them if i should show them, they are like naaaah, i wouldn’t know what to watch, and i just record and skip commercials. It’s not THAT expensive, and football and whatnot.
Its been my experience at least that once a site gets too good it gets shutdown. I got tired of that dance so I just properly setup radarr and Sonarr with Usenet.