InDesign CC slow, laggy, unusable, disaster

Just updated to CC on our Macs at work just to find out InDesign is now an utter disaster.
(And don't give me that crap like: "...it draws 4 times as many pixels as a lower resolution display...". Illustrator doesn't have this issue and the GFX cards are more than capable of handling this. So it all comes down to extremely poor programming and testing before publishing.)
We have both retina and non-retina Macs at work which are now close to unusable. You basically force us to upgrade to CC if we want retina for InDesign. However no testing of usabilty seems to have been made before publishing this. Simple things like scaling a colored box and scrolling are laggy as hell. EVERYTHING is laggy. And try setting up a small eight-page folder with pics, vectors and text... This will be even more fun when I have to make Magazines or books...
Considering the whole damn advertising industry is counting on Indesign, what the hell were you people thinking when releasing this? Everything will take almost twice as long thereby be twice as expensive for our clients. Try explaining that without loosing projects/clients...
"Myeah we will now charge you double because Adobe forced us to update their software for our state of the art Macs, so they now appear slower than our Win 95 PC..." - What the fudge? We use and depend on this single program everu single day!
Also, another minor detail: I can't seem to make my usual keyboard shortcut for "next window". Or actually I'm able to make the shortcut - it just doesn't work when hitting the keys... (CTRL+Tab).
I just can't believe you are getting away with this extremely poor update. All I can use InDesign CC for right now is opening newer files and exporting them as IDML for our CS 5.5... If our software department would release stuff like this to our clients they would have been asked to go look for a new job. You are Adobe and basically (and sadly) have a monopoly in this industry - don't screw over all your customers just because you can.
Go buy your friends at Illustrator a cup of coffee and please let them help you. You need all the help you can possibly get.
FIX IT.

Sorry, but I have to agree with Michael. When you START your first posting with these phrases...
"don't give me that crap like"
"what the hell were you people thinking "
"What the fudge"
"don't screw over all your customers"
...you're really not asking reasonable adult questions, you're venting emotion for the sake of venting.
This is a user-to-user forum. You're not addressing the people at Adobe who make decisions. You're addressing some hard working volunteers who are InDesign users like you who are trying to help other people.

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Dirk.
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[CS5 Win] Switching to InDesign is slow in CS5 for certain documents. XML links?

Hi,
I put this question in the scripting part, since you might be the ones to notice such things as this, and it might relate to importing XML by scripting. Also I got no positive response in one of the other forums, "complaining" about the sluggish performance redrawing the interface when setting focus to InDesign CS5. But now I can more clearly see that it is not slow for all documents.
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I've uploaded a video to demonstrate that InDesign sometimes can keep references to links:
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This propery has not been explicitly set, and therfore = false. But is there any way to get rid of all the old link names that's inside the document somehow?
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Thanks Mylenium
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Also in low-quality settings it was incredibly slow and the cpu-usage
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