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I find that Win10 boots very quickly. Of course, having at least 4GB of RAM and a fast disk help a lot.
Having adequate memory helps, but I believe the difference in boot times may be a function of how you did the changeover.
Six months ago, I took my 8 year old PC and - after reformatting the hard drive - did a clean install of Win 10. Even though it only has 2GB of RAM, it boots and operates fast.
On the other hand, I just updated my wife's relatively new Windows 8 PC (w/ 4GB RAM) to Win10 yesterday and it now boots and operates slow.
Freakin' MS.

I upgraded a Windows 8 Laptop to 8.1 and then when 10 became available I updated it to 10. It is a 4th gen i5 with 8gb of RAM and a 500gb hybrid drive. System boots in <20 seconds. I have some older systems I upgraded from Windows 7, they all boot faster than they did in 7. This is the first time I’ve heard complaints about slow boots. One thing is when it is finishing updates sometimes parts happen in the background and do slow down start up.