I feel like this is a somewhat recent change, so I don't know what happened on my computer or within Protonmail; I have an Intel Macbook Pro, and it really seems to slow everything down. Maybe I screwed up a setting but as I said everything else seems to work fine and when I use the Protonmail Bridge it works fine.
Yes, could potentially be related to a different CPU architecture, but could also be something else eg RAM capacity (I have 64GB) or Proton Mail settings (do you have offline enabled? I don't).
I have 64gb of RAM as well. I don't think I have offline enabled. My CPU is an i9.
I'm happy enough with my Mutt solution, and the iOS app is generally ok, and I do like the service overall, so while I complain it's not out of hatred. I just want the service to get better.