Ezi Molley I completely agree with you.
And I'm going to vent a bit more now...
This is not a very specific case scenario where we have to help debugging the situation and provide as much reproduceable data as we can to tech support. arcgis pro does not fit in that situation.
We are not talking about exotic setups or workflows. Everyone knows pro runs badly always. This is basic QC responsibilities and someone is knowingly let the product get out to the public like this.
Any guy/girl at esri with a common PC will encounter the same issues we are all facing easily.
Please don't tell me you don't know about network performance or you didn't detect the glaring rendering and geoprocessing issues. Don't tell me you don't make performance baseline testing. I know you do. Just look at the excellent System Design Strategies site. It's all there.
So to me this is a question of honesty and transparency.
So my message to esri is this... own it.
In truth, arcgis pro is free of charge. So there's a tolerance for a slow, informed, programmed switch from arcmap.
Key is informed...
Stop avoiding the real situation and start showing good leadership.
Tell us what you intend to do about it, even if it's nothing at all.
You could tell us that it's an intrinsic characteristic of the new software, and it will be slower than arcmap for some hardware generations to come, that eventually will catch up.
Just like going from av3 to arcgis 8 back in 1999 (it was staggering slower).
Tell us to buy real top-end machines, with raid nvme disks, cgi pro video cards, max frequency 2 slots cpus with 20 cores, and min 128gb ram.
At least we wouldn't be surprised that pro doesn't budge on our measly i7 sata sdd 32gb rigs. We wouldn't waste our money like this anymore.
And/Or you can tell us that you have an optimization plan going on and will include performance improvements in each iteration of the following releases.
And, please, in either case, create a knowledge base document on how to mitigate the existing performance issues. That would be helpful.
You can start by acknowledging the problem and point to the road ahead to solve it.
Be a leader.
That would win over *all of us* instead of alienating most of us.