I'm referring to the loading screen after you log in.

I just bought a 2.5GB/s NVMe m.2 SSD to replace my 550MB/s SATAII SSD. I was expecting KDE to load faster, but it's exactly the same. This isn't a terribly big deal.. just a minor disappointment. I was really hoping to get to my desktop faster with this new SSD. I've confirmed the drive is operating at 2.5GB/s in linux. My windows partition boots up in about 1 second or less.. versus about 8 seconds on my old SSD.

I've tried disabling a few unnecessary startup services like Bluetooth, but there was no effect. What exactly goes on during this load screen that takes so much time? My loading screen stays up for about 8 seconds after I log in.

Have you looked the journals/logs ? if there are problems?
Have you tried to log in with the KDE splash disabled ?

At here:

Qt: 5.5.1
KDE Frameworks: 5.18.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.5.3
Distro: Arch Linux

The systemd journal is telling:

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# journalctl -b > start.txt

Jan 16 16:07:00 archfox sddm[472]: Message received from greeter: Login
...
Jan 16 16:07:10 archfox konsole[1201]: QCoreApplication::arguments: Please instantiate the QApplication object first

10s from the SDDM to the Konsole start.