Why does "Calculating Audio Peaks" take soooo long?

You know, I get the feeling that as Adobe continues to enhance its Creative Cloud products via updates, it ONLY has the high end commercial sector in mind and we little guys in the educational, government, and similar sectors are all but forgotten about.  With Adobe's latest release of Premiere Pro, CC 2017.1, somehow they've *greatly* INCREASED the amount of time it takes to "calculate audio peaks" just after doing a simple audio gain on a clip.  Granted, because we do long government meetings at 2-4 hours on a single clip, that's quite a long clip to work with, but with all versions prior to 2017.1 it still happened relatively quickly.  Can you guys at Adobe start making your technology faster for those of us who deal with very long clips like the long, admittedly boring committee meetings and such?  We also do some short, informational videos here and it ties up our editors for a progress bar like "Calculating Audio Peaks" to take as long as it does before even being able to render the meeting out for our website/social media.  And that's if we gain it up to the right level; sometimes it's trial and error since the Audio Gain dialog box doesn't even show us how much to gain it up because it's always calculating.  We just have to pick a number based on what we're seeing in the audio meter and click OK just so it can start the forever process of "Calculating Audio Peaks".  And just so you know, we don't have sluggard systems; they should be plenty enough for standard compressed HD - two four-core processors, 64GB system RAM, Quadro K5000, and shared media storage on a video server connected via Gigabit Ethernet.