Image generation take longer than before.... why?

According to OpenAI API are at most “dall-e-3 → 15 images per minute” to Tier-4 and “50 images per minute” in Tier 5.

Anyway, this means that there are 30 seconds for each of the 50 generations per minute, since only 1 image can be received per request.

Consider that not all request take the same amount time to respond.