There are definitely some HUGE ways to go "wrong" in terms of performance with the GUI. I spent a couple of months figuring out how to make my GUI work in a very performant way. This subject is NOT easy and I hope that I didn't give an impression that it is easy, because it is not!
I have seen some U/I things that just "drag an app into dirt".
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