The more I read the luckier I realize I got… I managed to get the full, drawn out excruciatingly with re-sign in, panic POT look up, panic forgetting my CC number and running around to find it in my room, and then did the 10k separately from another browser… I think the luck was in the browser though, with no solid pattern like others are maybe seeing.
Edge computer 1- 2 tabs 9:45 spinning, incognito after 10 loading dwarves and eventually spinning
Safari computer 2- two tabs 9:50 spinning
iPhone- dwarves all morning and then spinning before noon I think
the two safari tabs each said more than an hour, the two edge 5 min each, and the iPhone 19 minutes. so my first open and spinning was what got me in fastest, but the iPhone done later than the safari was faster than those. I used both edge tabs opened at 9:45 to get in
ETA I was done by 12:48