I noticed that performance issues arise from having large groups of biters attacking. Something with the pathing for the enemies uses a huge about of CPU

Or a lot of robots with pending orders.

Hey sorry, it running poorly is the only way I wont get addicted to this. Is there any chance you could edit your comment and lie for me?

No need to lie, just set the internal rendering resolution to 1440p or higher and your machine will go up in flames.

I must regrettably inform you that the game runs very well on a M1 MacBook Pro, with an effective render resolution of ~2880x1800.

I don't doubt it does, my 12700k's iGPU handles it just fine at 1440p too. I was talking more about the old Skylake machine from earlier though, much different (see: slower) beast.

Your Skylake laptop has about 10x the single threaded CPU performance of the Switch. I wouldn't be surprised if the switch started lagging with one 8 reactor nuclear setup.