> your baseline for what performance is possible slows down.

This is a problem that absolutely plagues our field. If your project isn't some wrapper around some incredibly complicated math or handling files well into the GB range, there's no excuse for a desktop application to take noticeable time to do anything. Yet here we are, with it taking about a half second just to open the search bar on windows. What is it doing? Why does it take so long? Who knows?