Log without snapshot?

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I would love to be able to do two commands without generating a snapshot but I would still like it to make a log.

cy.request({
  url:...
  blarblar:... the usual stuff...
  log: true,
  snapshot: false
});

and

cy.log(`the normal stuff',[1,2,3]) // No idea how it would be possible to turn the snapshot off for this. ideas?

The reason for this is we have to do a big setup in a .before() which takes many api calls.
Each one of these api calls is doing a cy.request() (obviously).. and it's quite useful to see in the log how far we are..
but we have encountered significant 100% CPU usage and I believe it's from the snapshot creation.

If I do cy.request({ ... , log: false }) the setup time drops from 10 minutes to 2 minutes per run. It even makes the rest of the tests run a lot smoother.. (not sure if that is a memory issue or not?)
There is no difference between the 10 minute run and the 2 minute run except the log: false and a few commented out cy.log

This issue created by someone else has a repro and a confirmed by another user.
#8446