I am seeing lots of spinning balls with 1Password on my 2015 Macbook Pro. Even just switching between fields with the keyboard brings up a spinner for two seconds or so. It's a recent thing I think. No other app has any issues.

Is it possibly due to the x86 emulation? I could see something like that being the cause

Apparently the latest version 7.8 runs natively on Apple Silicon.

I see the same thing on native x86 1Password.

I just updated to version 7.8 from version 7.7 and it looks fine so far. I haven't seen any freezes in the five minutes that I have been using it.

This makes me realise how much of a pain it has been to use in the past weeks or so. Now that it is back to normal snappy it is such a pleasure to work with again.

Huh, no problem here. I use lastpass and safari's built in password thing.

Anecdotal but keeper and the built in keychain are instant ish at least not slow enough to notice

I don't use any external password manager, only Keychain and Safari and I see this 10-15 second delay every time when adding new password to Keychain since day 1.

It is my only issue with M1.