Not at all a nitpick, it is one of the things that is painful in the app IMO. I think the length of time for some of the operations is one of the bigger reasons for people to bounce after initial sign up. I need to think if there are some clever ways to improve the onboarding experience such as trying to pre-generate some recipes during/after the onboarding flow.

I think your sign up flow is just too long also, all that information might be necessary to get the app to function how you want but it feels more like filing your taxes. Maybe you could build an agent that the user talks to during sign up? And it will fill out the form in the background? Also you could definitely cache some high quality content (kind of like how TikTok has a core set of high quality videos it uses during new user onboarding)