Why does the side (power/sleep) button of my iPhone 12 require a long press of about three seconds or more to power on the device? The iPhone 6s that i am transitioning from powers up with a very brief press, what's up with that?

I was not aware that iPads operate the same way. Apparently an iPad's on/off mechanism, its switch, to be specific, was designed, or rather, I ought to say the whole lot of recently manufactured iPads' (that's a plural possessive) switches and the iPhones' switches as well, interact with the OS in such a way that they do not work as simple on/off switches on purpose to minimize the incidence of accidental turn on of the devices, which, if you stop to consider it in terms of the fact that the shutdown process (actuated by the simultaneous pressing of two keys) takes roughly half the time of startup, makes it seem as though Apple is subtly cueing us to be **** sure we really want to fire up the modern iteration of their devices!

So as long as I'm on the topic of the cumulative usurpation of MY TIME (a few seconds at a time) throughout the lifetime of the phone, let me just note that until one is safely on the insider's technological loop, who on earth would have yet guessed that shutdown can no longer be accomplished with a single digit press of the on/off/sleep button and a screen swipe?

One more thing, I may not be the only one with a "set it and forget it" mentality who is grasping to see why the home button wasn't simply moved to the backside of the phone to gain additional real estate for the display without overturning the entire apple cart by implementing a fully gestures-based operating system. I like apple well enough, but the option of three hotbuttons on my screen ( home -o-, back -<-, & show open programs [] []) is a super intuitive (Android) way to navigate in and out of screens, web pages, and programs with a very easy learning curve, while offering incredible versatility to people who are inclined to invest time to modify their user interface (UI) to suit themselves... I know I'm off topic at this point, but not sure where to post this gripe.

Thanks for the suggestion. It is only a mild annoyance. I was only fishing for info to see if others had noticed a similar delay...