It seems like image-builder-cli doesn't enable any caching, see the output from ps:
/usr/bin/osbuild --store /var/cache/image-builder/store --output-directory fedora-41-qcow2-x86_64 - --export qcow2
Can we at least enable caching for the build pipeline with some reasonable default cache size (dunno, 20 GiB)? We can iterate from there. :)