i just signed up for a trial of salesforce and at least when there's not much data in the account it doesnt seem too slow. i was going off of what some coworkers related to me from past experience.

i think it's expected that if you're doing some editing/reporting/exporting en masse, then a couple seconds could be okay (assuming it's thousands or tens of thousands of records, not a hundred). but not for single-record actions / interactions.