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Quantum computers are still vaporware. Alchemists predicted the transmutation of lead into gold and that hasn't happened either.

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Quantum computers are pretty much still useless toys. If they start factoring primes efficiently at some point, blockchain with be migrated to a different algorithm.

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Ok, how long does it take to switch algos? Maybe five years if everyone is on board?

QC may have cracked SHA-265 already. You would have no way of knowing. Switching out the algo five years from now won't matter.