The source of the performance issue here is their own incompetence, actually. I have never in my entire career heard of a rendering pipeline as idiotic as the custom one they built.
Which is equally terrible and has earned them every single rendering engineer in the world taking the piss out of them when they proudly announced it was as complicated as rendering a video game.
That's such a stupid engineering choice that it really makes one question if the people working at Anthropic have any software engineering ability at all. There's no excuse for running React in a freaking TUI.