Warning: PP doesn't work for feature length projects

I felt the need to get this out of my system. And I want to hear if others experience the same things. Am I just going mad?

 I am fluent in both Premiere and Avid and i've been using both for around 15 years. 

At the moment I'm editing a feature length (around 2-2,5 hours) film. It's the first time I'm editing a feature in premiere (all of my previous features I've edited in Avid). And here are my take aways:

It doesn't work. I feel confident premiere is NOT made to work for theese kinds of projects without big workarounds to just run.

Let me alaborate. The last film i did in Avid i used a Mac mini M1 with 16gb of ram. Sure there where times I wished I have had a faster and better machine, but it worked. For my current project I had to upgrade to the latest Mac studio M4 Max because premiere where so laggy. But even now, every edit i make, every trim in my timeline - heck even when I just scroll on the timeline - there is lag. 

It got even worse with the latest update. I had to downgrade to the previuous version which helped alot. But there's still lag. Every save takes around 15 seconds. And with every lag I'm longing for Avids smooth easy, lag-free experience with quick save times. I've tried emptying cache. And it makes it a little tiny bit fast for a while.

My feeling (yes, I don't know code or software engingering) is that there are to many, for film editing, unnecessary functions. Sure, they may be very handy when editing quick short form projects, but are just weighing down the softeware on longer formats. 

Adobe should really consider, if they want to keep feature film editors, to develop a stripped down version of premiere pro. Maybe starting from scratch. Re-imagined. Maybe you could let people choose which functions they need. 

I will never use premiere again unless MAJOR changes are made.

If anyone can relate and have figured out solutions PLEASE share. I've still got time left with this project.