draft: true causes performance regression in action execution time

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When draft: true is set in release-please-config.json, the release-please-action step takes significantly longer to execute compared to when draft releases are disabled.

Environment details

• Programming language: typescript/javascript
• OS: MacOS 26
• Language runtime version: 5.9
• Package version: pnpm 10.x.x

Workflow:

- uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
  with:
    config-file: release-please-config.json
    manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json

ASIS

Enabling draft: true should not significantly impact action execution time...

TOBE

In my case, github action execution time increases from ~14 seconds to ~3-4 minutes when draft: true is enabled.