Same here. Installed Big Sur 11.1 on my MacBook Pro 13” mid 2014. Too slow to do anything. tried resetting SMC, didn’t work. Tried reinstalling from recovery, didn’t work.
Tried clean install, still slow.
Rolling back to Catalina and is back lightning fast just as it is supposed to be.
Girip
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