I know we don't have to wait for the merge but having an operation that is syncronous and takes <1s on my comptuer but being asyncronous and taking 30 seconds to five minutes on Bitbucket is quite infuriating. Often I want to merge a PR, then switch to my term, pull master, and start branching from the new head. Now I cannot do this. Also I want to merge a bunch of PRs it gets even more confusing.

I suggest you up the capacity on the queue so it feels syncronous and snappy like GitHub, as this is now a pain point.