Well, since the question has arisen more than once, I will tell you where such terrible numbers of prestige durations come from. When I saw cryolab for the first time, I immediately wrote here that it was some kind of exploit. Actually, I was almost right :) But the devil is in the details.
See. Let's say I earned X faith in a week of playing. Restarted prestige. My income is now X/7 per day. Freeze it in a cryolab for a week. A couple of days at 25%, then 27, then 29... In a week we will get somewhere 1.8*X and the second level of cryostasis, which will give us income and a reserve of faith * 1.2 and 2% of passive income. Passive income, though pleasant, is not enough. But 1.8 is serious, in order to at least match this income next time I had to spend about 8-9 days in the village. Even taking into account the purchased upgrades and the 1.2 bonus from cryolab. And so, after 9 days, what should I do? Reset to get the same amount? Stupidly. So I waited another five days and ended up with about 6X. That's better. In order not to be confused, I will denote this figure as X1,
In total, my income is now X1/14, which is three times more than X. That's just if you freeze it, In a week I will get somewhere 2 * X1, that is, the speed is already four times higher than with an active game. Moreover, after a week of freezing, I will receive the third level, and 3% * 14 is already 42% of the main income. Also a little, but already a decent figure. And of course, in order to somehow compensate for the opportunity to receive four times the income through freezing, I play so much to get at least 10 times more. As a result, it turns out twice as long as in the last session, that is, a month.
And then, I think you understand :) Each subsequent session is twice as long as the previous one. At the same time, even passive income begins to exceed the active one at times, not to mention the income from freezing. My last session lasted 300+ days. And at the 7th level of cryostasis, I now receive 7% of passive income. 0.07*300=21. That is, passively I get 21 times more than actually in the game. And if you freeze it - at 117.
Of course, you can ask why then prestige is needed at all. Well, if you didn't follow the reasoning very closely :) And the prestige reset is needed to increase the damn X. After all, even though I get a lot of faith passively and can buy a lot of upgrades, their prices are growing exponentially. And still not enough :) Always! :)
However, thanks to the creativity of the developer, each mode has its own ways of tightening. On a gas giant, you just need to cut through a pile of waste rock. And the further - the more. In each prestige, the starting session lasts longer and longer. Not to mention the main one. There are keys in the horde. One a week is powerful :) At the same time, of course, soon one key (more precisely, the resources extracted with it) will not be enough for anything. And we will already need 2, 3, 5, etc. keys for new upgrades :) The gallery, of course, is "pleasing" in this regard. Because of the funny icon "end of content, wait for new updates", the game moves into the real world altogether. We are waiting here, this time is no longer squandered :) And the farm alone does not strain us with expectations. Well, just think, the grass growing for a week is a trifle not worth attention! :)
So yes, I will repeat my thought, even though the people below didn't like it. We were warned that this is for a long time! :D