Unless you're running on a rather slow computer or you've made a lot of transactions, I wouldn't have thought it would take that long. If you're running it from the graphical console, you could attempt to run it via the terminal to see if that helps performance a little bit.
Goes without saying, if you're struggling with performance, terminate other programs until you've completed this step. If your CPU is maxing, you'll have difficulty with whatever you're trying to do.
This is 9900K @ 5 GHz, 16 GB of RAM @ 4000 MHz and SSD drives (NVMe also).
This shouldn't be taking that long!
Wallet is big (1 GB) and has long history. It is running since few hours now.