I appreciate that Forza Horizon 5 takes a long time to load, but it is boring looking at pictures of the game I want to be playing now !!
Ideally I’d like to select the playing options either before or after the game loads, its annoying to select them half way through then wait a while longer before being able to play the game.
However a useful distraction would be minigames eg 16 bit silly go cart / horace crosses the road style of thing. This would reduce the frustration of staring at loading screens, its possible people would even keep playing after the game has loaded! How about it 
This is an amazing idea! One of the old test drive games let you play pong during loading screens as test drive was owned by Atari at the time.
I play on a XSX and playing solo load times are almost nonexistent. However once I play online load times can be anywhere from 2 seconds (if it’s all people with decent PCs and/or XSXs, and decent internet speeds) all the way up to 2 minutes if someone from Cambodia is playing with their gen one Xbone with 9mbps internet.
It would be nice to have something other than browse through Forza forum on my phone