Deleting photos and other issues in Lightroom Classic

[crshlagor]

Ever since I upgraded to Lightroom Classic 13.4 I'm having several issues.  The most annoying is when I try to delete a photo.  When I right-click in a photo and then click on "remove photo"  an option would appear  to "Remove from Lightroom" or "Delete from disc".  The same thing would occur when I used the keys Command/Option/Shift/Delete - the option to remove or delete would show up.  Upon clicking an option  It would then "remove and trash photo" or "remove from Lightroom" (depending on which option I chose).  Now when I try to delete (using either method) I get a long pause while it says "gathering information" at the top left.  This takes 30 seconds to a minute before the option to "remove from Lightroom" or "delete from disk" box comes up.  This is really frustrating and  taking up way too much of my time.  Sometimes the pause will go away if  close down Lightroom and reopen it but sometimes not.  In addition, there are other lengthy pauses that were never there before:  when I click on "Auto" in the Develop Module, when I click on "edit in" when I try to go to an external app, and some functions.  Is anyone else having these issues and if so how can I fix this?

[stefpix]

UPDATE.

I bought a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 24 GB of memory, from a 3 year old iMac M1 with 16 GB memory. 
Lightroom Classic now is useable. Some metadata hickups now and then. 
It seems that LrC since the v 13 major update has became much more hungry for a fast processor and RAM.
The iMac is not that old and I wish Adobe would make LrC not as demanding. 
Still writing metadata to the files and seeing changes in the Quick Develop module are not snappy, sometimes slow. I did not have the same issues with the Develop module. 

Some of the AI features and masking are nice, but I wish that would not take a toll on the basic editing and DAM features.