It is NOT just Web apps I'm here trying to write in LibreOfficea several-page document with minimal formatting, usinga high-spec CAD laptop/workstation -- and

It is NOT just Web apps I'm here trying to write in LibreOfficea several-page document with minimal formatting, usinga high-spec CAD laptop/workstation -- and every damn keystroke is laggy! My muscle-memory arrow-keys & quick moving around to edit portions of sentences, merge/split lines -- all rendered useless - because I need to wait for the cursor to catch up. A part of my mind keeps wandering off to whether I should go setup another old DOS box and load XYWrite - which was feature-rich, always lightning-fast and never laggy and worked great. Of course, the lack of printer drivers... In every area, the software developers just squander more of the processing power than the incredible continuing hardware advances provide. Anyone have any advice on software that at least attempts to work closer to the metal and lets us see the performance that we should see from modern hardware (for all values of modern)? I got out of the software industry because of this trend to building on multiple layers of squishy software, instead of requiring efficiency - this framework compiles to that pcode, talking to the other API, which gets thunked down to the other ..... where the h*!? is the hardware that does some actual computing? It seems like it happened for the same reason that high-fire-rate rifles took over military use -- because they figured out that most troops couldn't actually shoot straight, so it worked better to just let them spray bullets in the general direction than to require & teach real skills. Similarly, this whole morass seems designed to make it easy for mediocre programmers, and programmers that learn something more serious like Haskell are considered exceptional, while the bulk of stuff is written for