This just started happening recently. I have been testing a workflow on Alteryx server and when using the file select interface tool with an Excel file, it takes about 2 minutes for the sheet name prompt to show up.
If I run this without the sheet name prompt, obviously the workflow fails because a sheet name was not provided. Not sure why it's still not a capability to pre-determine the sheet name and avoid the prompt altogether, but that's for another day.
I have built a very simple 4 tool workflow to test this and it's still not working.