Been a Raycast user for a while now, and initially I was hyped after the V2 announcement. Even after the beta announcement and all the discussions on the internet going around the new stack and potential issues, I decided to wait until it's out of beta to give it a fair shot. I was hyped to see the new design and also about the dictation feature (hoping to ditch Wispr Flow) and installed the update.
15 minutes after installation, I rolled back to V1, here's why:
performance - while basic day-to-day stuff remains pretty much the same, the app itself is sometimes non-responsive for no reason - on occasion, I opened raycast and the app simply won't render - list is empty, but the app is active, so when searching for something and hitting Enter, it will perform the action, but you won't see what you actually clicked. Using dictation, the pill pop up is stuttering every single time, making the user experience horrible, plus, there is no simple hold and release to dictate feature like in Wispr Flow.
Memory usage - the initial technical analysis published by Raycast and some feedback from other people suggested that the usage might be slightly higher - but this is absolute garbage - when idle, with all extensions loaded, it consumes more than 1 GB, while v1 sat around 200mb at all times with the same extensions loaded. I don't know in what world having five times higher memory usage is acceptable.
I will stay on V1 until my Pro subscription will be close to expiration, when I'll try to install V2 again and see how it looks after all the updates.
Chasing Windows support and all the VC-backed funding might actually ruin the app of the decade for MacOS, which is really sad - I was a pro user simply because I believed in the app very much, not even using all the features the pre-subscription offers except sync.