A lot of tutorials are old. Mechanical splices have improved very quickly in the past 5 years.
Talking with my friend who is an home automation installer, he says they now just use mechanical crimp splices and they don't take them longer than, say, prepping and terminating a coax cable. He says it's definitely shorter now than the average time they spend trying to untwist, straighten, and line up wires in a cat connector.
They used to use connectors requiring polishes that took 30 minutes
Talking with my friend who is an home automation installer, he says they now just use mechanical crimp splices and they don't take them longer than, say, prepping and terminating a coax cable. He says it's definitely shorter now than the average time they spend trying to untwist, straighten, and line up wires in a cat connector.
They used to use connectors requiring polishes that took 30 minutes