It seems like redrawing the window is slow when there are many files in the directory (order of magnitude of around 7000). Here's a non-exhaustive list of things that get slow because of this:
Box selection
Typing text in for example the rename dialog, path bar, or search bar
Initializing dragging the window (it jumps to the cursor after a delay, menubar styling is also delayed)
It seems like redrawing the window is slow when there are many files in the directory (order of magnitude of around 7000). Here's a non-exhaustive list of things that get slow because of this: