Jarred Sumner (bun creator, bun was recently acquired by Anthropic) has been working exclusively on bringing down memory leaks and improving performance in CC the last couple weeks. He's been tweeting his progress.

This is just regular tech debt that happens from building something to $1bn in revenue as fast as you possibly can, optimize later.

They're optimizing now. I'm sure they'll have it under control in no time.

CC is an incredible product (so is codex but I use CC more). Yes, lately it's gotten bloated, but the value it provides makes it bearable until they fix it in short time.