I agree with your premise, but not your conclusion. Its not that navigating the stack that introduces the slowdown, its that making your own choices as to what

I agree with your premise, but not your conclusion. Its not that navigating the stack that introduces the slowdown, its that making your own choices as to what that stack will be leads to a very specific stack that not many are using. Because of that the tooling for that specific stack is most likely non-existant meaning that you have to context switch a lot to perform common tasks (now, if you're good at context switching, it might not be a problem). Its the same problem of working in a high level vs low level programming language. If you're trying to do something that the high level language was designed for, you'll have a good time, but if not, you might just be shit out of luck.