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Note that by constructing the group in the way you do, you get a group that is explicitly represented as an additive cyclic group (with an explicit generator). When you create random elements, the system probably just takes an appropriate random element by taking a random multiple of the generator and store it as such.

As a consequence, if you then compute a multiple of THAT point, the system only has to multiply two integers and take it mod the order of the group to represent the element as a multiple of the generator. You're basically avoiding the discrete log problem by never taking "discrete exponentials". When you print the element, it looks like sage does perform the "discrete exp" (i.e., find the coordinate representation of the point).

If you take the use of the wrapper out and time something like

Integer(exponent[i])*E.gen(0)

you get something more realistic, like 0.01 seconds per operation.