This is the exact feeling I had. My 2019 intel MacBook Pro has 12 cores, 32gb ram and a 1TB hard drive. Yet, most consumer web apps like Gmail, Outlook and Teams are excruciatingly slow.

What is surprising is that a few years ago, these apps weren’t so terrible on this exact hardware.

I’m convinced that there’s an enormous amount of bloat right at the application framework level.

I finally caved and bought a new M series Mac and the apps are much snappier. But this is simply because the hardware is wicked fast and not because the software got any better.

I really wish consumer apps cared less about user retention and focused more on user empowerment.