I 100% agree with your broader point! However in support of Apple's M1/M2 macs, I dont have this problem so much! Apart from Electron based apps... Which is

I 100% agree with your broader point! However in support of Apple's M1/M2 macs, I dont have this problem so much! Apart from Electron based apps... Which is why I find the wide spread love of VS Code so befuddling! It's fine.. but so laggy when redrawing windows, switching tabs and so on! Maybe it doesn't seem slow when in isolation, but compared to a GUI editor like Sublime Text, it's very noticeable! But yes - your broader point stands and drives me nuts! Somewhat gone are the days of upgrading your computer and everything being noticable faster because the software is the same! (to be fair, the M1 upgrade from Intel was impressive) These days to have a decent experience (as a self confessed geek with high standards) you need an M1 Mac or on Linux and Windows a modern CPU, decent GPU and as much RAM as you can fit!