If you want to, come find me in the Unreal Slack chat. I’ve done a couple minimal improvements so far that might or might not help you, but I’m planning on looking into quite a bit more soon.
Also, there’s pretty good reasons the baking takes a little bit of time.I’m sure like anything it could be faster, and I’m sure they don’t put as much time into optimizing the baking as they do everything else, but from what I’ve seen so far there’s a couple bigger issues.