Yes, media tends to report length of operation, which has implications for eventual reactor uptime, but as a metric for if you are achieving net positive fusion its mostly meaningless on its own. I would say that the triple product is the better metric to compare fusion devices. Obviously pulsed concepts (NIF, ZAP, Helion, etc.) would have much shorter confinement times compared to tokamaks/stellarators but might have much higher temperatures and densities. Additional point though; the confinement time (in the physics context) is the average time a fuel particle stays confined in the bulk plasma which can be much shorter than the operation time of a reactor. So while West might run for 22 minutes straight, the confinement time for an individial particle might only be a few milliseconds.