Why is the ChatGPT Mac App so slow?

I'm an avid user of the ChatGPT mac app simply for the the sheer convenience when I don't want to have some other website open in some tab.

But the main issue with the Mac app is just how slow it is.

Like nearly every action carries a noticeable delay.

I'm using an M2 Macbook Air with 16GB RAM so I don't think it's a hardware issue.

Due to the apparent average tenure and compensation at OAI it does surprise me with how badly the performance is.

I'm not that much of a Swift or Mac app dev but I did recreate the same style as the app with similar functionality but just to retrieve messages from their voice mode (before they had any transcriptions)

It's obviously a lot less feature rich than their main experience but it's substantially faster and I can't see any outstanding reason for the slowness:

• doesn't speed up when internet is off (thought it could be using async func on things)
• doesn't speed up that much when the text content is barebones: thought it could be their code display/or a more advanced markdown component

Any thoughts from anyone from OAI or an experienced Swift dev?

It is bad patterns and technical debt overtime or simply a lack of focus due to how many users it has compared to other experiences?

Thanks!