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I believe the iCloud option is faster to set up at first because it transfers/downloads less information before making the phone usable, while transferring from another phone requires transferring almost everything upfront.
For example, if you transfer from another iPhone, you have all the photos of the previous iPhone immediately after the transfer is complete, but if you recover from an iCloud backup, you can start using the phone before the photos are downloaded, and the photos will be downloaded in the background (this took me almost an entire day the last time I used the iCloud option).
When i transferred my own data from phone-to-phone, it still needed to icloud-download all my messages and photos, which took several hours (it kept pausing because the phone got too hot, too).
overall, seemed to be very little benefit going phone-to-phone this time (and, honestly, i couldn’t identify any benefit). Perhaps more of my apps stayed “logged in,” but i can’t prove it, as most of my wife’s did too.