Maybe if you purchase the Eevee course from Chipp you can also archive photorealistic
renderings with Eevee … :-)
Regarding Cycles render times, this is also nonsense what you post. You maybe are used
to ray tracers and not path tracers (which Cycles is). Metin has posted the Denoiser link,
so you can render in a fraction of time too if you use the denoiser and set Cycles to lower
samples.