I was having the same issue: MBP 16 i9, incredibly laggy when switching between applications, typing text would take a long time before accepting entries, finder was so slow I couldn’t seem to do anything meaningful without tremendous lag.
FIXED: After turning off “Allow wallpaper tinting in windows” (in System Preferences > General) everything was snappy again.
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