Wow! To me 2024 could not end fast enough. It was like a turtle and that turtle had thorns more than roses but now that the year is closing, I can't help but laugh at the previous hardships I faced. So i understand why people say it went by too fast. We don't remember most of the pain we had to go through.
The year was tough for many people but maybe like you said, because it was thornier than others, as a coping mechanism, our (my) brains saw it as going by too fast.