Just noticed this while testing my multi-boot USB stick with scads of ISO images:
In Fedora 39, the boot spends an annoying amount of time imagining that it can wait for a network to be up, but the physical ethernet port is connected (via crossover cable) to a device which will definitely not be providing any DHCP. I suspect if I unplugged the cable, it would boot faster since nothing would look like a live signal.
I tried booting the Fedora 38 workstation live ISO, and it didn't spend a lot of time waiting for the network, so something is different from f38 to f39 (maybe the "no limit" timeout?).
They both eventually booted up, so it obviously isn't a major issue.