Only Windows has this issue. There's nothing about my Mac or my Chromebook that is anything less than immediate. You can quibble about whether the compositor introducing an extra frame of latency was worth the tradeoff, but that is on the margins.
Terminal ~300ms.
iTerm ~400ms.
Calculator ~300ms.
Firefox ~1s.
Textedit ~200ms.
Slack ~1s to appear, ~5s to load.
Sequel Ace ~800ms.
Fork ~500ms.
All my subjective experience, but it's basically instant in experience. I think it also helps that it doesn't show fade in/out animations, which LOOK sluggish to me.
M1 MacBook Pro from 2020...