@inkscape Holy crap - this took a mildly complex SVG of mine from being a sloooow pain to work with on my 2014 laptop, to being completely usable!
I feel like Inkscape has surpassed the 0.92 days in terms of performance. :fox_happy:
(I did turn off the render cache as per https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4986#caveats-the-cache - good luck with whomever works on fixing it!)