Greg, I am not sure you have the right attitude for this part of the hobby. As Anthony Wesley once told me when I was getting frustrated with seeing, "This hobby is not for the impatient".
Learning polar alignment will enhance your skills in astrophotography, it will help you to trouble shoot problems with regard to guiding etc. There are programs that will help you do polar alignment but I am yet to see them allow you to setup in 5 minutes. 45 minutes is fast and as has been suggested you can put aids down in place that will speed up the process faster still.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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