Exactly. Also should be noted that even at the height of France’s building the bigger and more complex reactors took longer and never got down to the build tim

Exactly. Also should be noted that even at the height of France’s building the bigger and more complex reactors took longer and never got down to the build times of the smaller ones: the CP (900MWe) series got down to about 5 years, the P4 (1300) all needed 7+ iirc.