Since I am not a coder, it would be difficult for me to even comment on the struggles that the creator of this amazing plugin has endured to bring us what we already enjoy. That being said, the one thing I did find in my upgrade of the plugin, when it was offered, was what seem to be a glitch causing updates in the editor to be extremely slow at best.

After doing a little research, I was able to find that one of the settings in the plugin that enables the "onpage" indexing feature was the culprit behind that. Also, I have noticed that if you utilize a page builder of any sorts, the long the page and obviously the shortcodes that are involved seem to slow down the behind the scenes of Yoast's plugin.

However, since I disabled that one little feature, it has seem to help dramatically in the operation and speed. Seeing that this is one of the largest SEO type plugins that seems to be utilized across the WP community, I will just offer up my continued prayers and support to the development team of it!