[vamsiraju]

Toggling Reduced Transparency ON in Accessibility makes it so much better.

[robin_reala]

It makes it much more usable, but it doesn’t make it faster. Or at least it doesn’t bring it up to an acceptable level.

[adastra22]

On my phone it made it very snappy, just as fast as the old 18 experience.

Far less polished and imho still a downgrade from a usability perspective, but definitely faster than with the setting off.