I have to admit, I open my IDEs maybe once a month (and only when a restart is imposed in me), and while indexing can take a while, I don't get anywhere near to

I have to admit, I open my IDEs maybe once a month (and only when a restart is imposed in me), and while indexing can take a while, I don't get anywhere near to the sort of issues you have, even on very, VERY, large codebases. Different hardware, I guess. Although I can't help but think the situation should be much worse under any Electron malarkey.