Did something change about two weeks ago in the way stuff in the home is drawn?
It now takes a very long time for things to "settle down" and for verbs to start working when I visit home for the first time. I do have an unreasonable number of SDBs, but things were manageable before.
Now I don't even like to start playing since gardening is so incredibly slow that it's always lecturing me about leisure, and clicking on just about anything leads to the spinning wheel.
I'm over here writing a message right now, hoping that whatever loading is necessary will happen in the background and be done by the time I get back...
[a few minutes pass]
...hmm, things seem just a bit slow now, but not anger-inducing.
I guess the new normal is starting the game, going home, and then making myself a sammich or something.