That's not the discussion. We're talking about what open source is, and it's having the weights and the method to recreate the model.
If someone gives me an executable that I can run for free, and then says "eh why do you want the source, it would take you a long time to compile", that doesn't make it open source, it just makes it gratis.
If someone gives me an executable that I can run for free, and then says "eh why do you want the source, it would take you a long time to compile", that doesn't make it open source, it just makes it gratis.