Long scene load times in Editor because of Prefab usage

Hello,

I noticed that my scene load times, within the Editor only, take significantly longer then they used to.

I believe it all started when I began to use nested prefabs and prefab variants more.

Profiler shows that Application.Integrate Assets In Background is taking up a vast majority of the load time.

This does not repro in standalone builds.

Also, to be clear, I am referring to the time it takes to load a new scene, as a result of playing the game from within the Editor. I am not referring to the time it takes to load new scene for editing.

I have searched around this topic a few times before and found nothing. Is anyone else encountering this?

Is there a workaround?

This issue ends up wasting a good amount of time when I am doing quick iterations of something.

Thank you

 

Am I to assume that nobody else has encountered this type of issue?