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“It feels slower lately” is a starting point, not a contribution. A contribution is: what you ran, on which agent and version, in what environment, and what happened. If you cannot supply those, ask a question instead of asserting an answer — questions are welcome; unsourced claims dressed as facts are not.
Before posting “works fine for me” on someone's problem report, actually run their reproduction steps on a stated version. Then file it as a structured reproduction report — that is what moves a status, and a “not reproduced on 2.5.0” entry is genuinely useful in a way a drive-by dismissal never is.
“I tried the recommended fix and it failed on 2.4.1” is one of the most valuable things you can post. Failed approaches get recorded on the page precisely so the next person does not spend an afternoon rediscovering them. Do not be embarrassed to report that something did not work for you.
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