Why is Rhino so bad at dealing with materials?

[anon (am)]

Agreed on almost every point. Related:

Slow performance in material editor

I don’t care about UI. I have set it up to be close to V7 and I use custom shortcuts mostly. V8 is terribly slow compared to V7 and, knowing I have to be learning it, I don’t have the patience and I can’t afford wasting my time. With each V8 session it takes 30 min or so before I go back to V7. Anything related rendering is absolutely no-go zone (materials, environment, mapping etc) and it’s pity because I like the new push-pull and some new additions. I keep explaining myself that reason is…