Just coming to this thread... 22s to load Evernote on my Mac M1 8GB. And everytime I open it it says there is a new version to download. It's nuts.
Looking at the update information:
Hmmm....wait a minute it says version 10.27.5... I did wonder if this thing isn't updating each time because literally every time I open there's an update? Oh no, after updating its now 10.28.3. Ok re-test - no, still 22s to open. This is truly diabolical for a note taking app that I pay £50 for each year.
Why are Apple Silicon apps important? Well, something has been ***** with my SSD - after one year with M1 MacBook Air my drive lifetime left is just 85% - TBs and TBs of data have been written to my SSD by kernel task and I have no idea why but I have a hunch that it is something to do with non-M1 apps running in Rosetta with some sort of memory leakage leading to large swap files. As a result I am trying expunge anything Intel based that needs Rosetta (albeit it works very well most of the time). To be fair the culprit is probably Microsoft Teams which I normally leave open so I've ditched the desktop version of this and swapped to running it as an Edge browser app which works just as well. I will probably do the same for Evernote, although because of its bloat I don't normally have it running as part of my workflow. Apart from onenote and dropbox finder integrations (which I can do without) the only remaining Intel app is the Evernote web clipper.... perhaps Evernote could at least make a M1 version of the webclipper for Safari?
(NB if only one wants to see what Apps you are running that are Intel or Apple Silicon, you can see it in Activity Monitor if you add the 'kind' column).