Syncing bitcoin for like over a week now, I notice that in the 790000 block range I have to wait up to a minute or two for blocks. If I was up to date and had to wait that long, and we had bigger blocks or a shorter time between them, I wouldn't be able to sync fast enough to keep up, meaning I wouldnt even be able to run a full node.

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Why does it take so long?

I think it depends on the data in the block, some go much quicker like 10-20 seconds, you'd certainly think it could still go much faster than that.