EndNote 8.1 seriously slow on MacOS 10.13

Still ridiculously slow on my mac. I’m running 10.13.3 and the latest EndNote 8 update. It’s garbage for me right now. I am on my 30-day trial. I used to use EndNote X7, so I figured I’d take this one for a spin. I won’t be buying it if this is what it’s going to be like while writing my thesis. I’ll go with Zotero or something else, even if they’re not as good. This is absolutely useless to work with for how expensive it is. Takes up to 90 seconds to update, even when I’m just removing some artifacts from exporting citations from my university’s website. 90 seconds to remove the word “NEW YORK”?!