Timing how fast opens comparable to another phone doesn’t test the phones performance. The developer programmed those apps differently and they could take longer to open on one OS vs another. Real world usage is a good test, and like I said, my Note 8 kills my iPhone 7 plus easily in all the tasks I ask of it.
That's not a fact, that's a claim you are making. Everybody's real world usage is different, so you can't put things that way.
Developers don't program apps to open longer, they program apps to open ASAP, then it's up to the phone's hardware