Anything we can do regarding resource usage?

[sunlightspectre]

In addition to my strong opinions on yet another useless UX update that makes every application look and handle like the exact same sterile idevice...

There's a pretty horrendous memory bloat in the new launcher.
I've noticed that it does terribly on *Nix, and not much better on Windows.
Seems to get worse the longer the program remains open, too.
And on top of that? The downloads are on top now? And the context menu of right-clicking steam has the same garbage comic sans huge font everything does aaAaaAaaaAaa -

Sorry, where was I.

Question, is there anything we can do as users to help optimise OldGlory? I'm very grateful it exists, but I'd like to try to finesse it into playing nice with the unique new UX. Let me know if there's anything I can stress-test for you.
Feel free to close this one, I don't know where else to comment, aha...

Editing to add, I can't help but notice they release this before sunsetting Win7/8 support.
Chances are the idea of 'we no longer are bound by working with these ANCIENT OS means we are no longer bound by sanity or common sense' - which is to say, a perfect example of 'we can' outweighing 'why shouldn't we.' Grumble.
Wow, this is actually horrendous...