It's part of the reason I might roll my eyes and joke about my DDs taking forever in the showers after training, but I only hurry them out if we genuinely have to fly off somewhere else - it's partly the social time that makes the hard work worth it for them.
We tried lift sharing with a lad a couple of streets away, but it fell apart within a couple of weeks because the other parents allowed zero social time after training and, whilst their kid was incredibly dull OK with that, mine wasn’t. Over 10 years later, with everyone moving on to uni and jobs, he’s still good mates with swim team members and they meet up when they can.
DH can't swim, is not interested in swimming, knows nothing about swimming, and clearly refuses to learn anything about swimming...
My DH can swim and was quite good at swimming as a child, but still asked loudly at a big competition whether the swimmers can choose their own stroke order in IM …
(I did once judge at a gala where they had a knockout medley where swimmers had to change the IM order every round and the slowest swimmer would get knocked out - that was fun).