1Password 8, Mac app, takes forever to actually fill UN/PW fields

Same here. I even just updated to 1PW 8.9.8, have the latest Chrome (107.0.5304.87), and the latest MacOS (Ventura 13.0), on an M1 MacBook.
95+% of the time when I try to fill in a field in Chrome using 1Password 8, it hangs and hangs and hangs. Often for well over 10-30 seconds, sometimes a lot longer (over 1 minute). I can't even click to another tab or window most of the time, and even if I do then eventually 1Password sometimes starts typing the data on the wrong webpage. I can't go to another app. My entire computer locks up until 1Password deems it available for my use with the spinning beachball, which I haven't seen in what feel like years.

1Password 7 was clean, lightning fast, reliable, and extremely good at what it did. 1Password 8... is NONE of those things. And it's been in testing for a year or so?!

Sometimes it locks up just the tab, sometimes the whole browser, and usually the whole computer. If I'm patient, and go physically to do something else or look out the window, it eventually does work. Sometimes. Other times I wait it out and nothing was accomplished. It's hard to replicate, but it happens often enough that it's extremely irritating considering how much I need to use 1Password. (I've been using it since it first came out and this is the first time I remember something like this being so frustrating about 1Password. It really affects quality of life to have to unpredictably wait for an unpredictable amount of time just to be able to enter a password.)

Restarting the browser or the computer does not help. But that's not a reasonable answer, even if it did work. As much as I hate it, I am forced to use Chrome for my work.

I am a huge 1Password advocate - everyone I can tell about it has heard about it, and I subscribed to it for my company and employees. I'm suddenly feeling like the rug got pulled out from under me. I'm afraid that I'm forced to downgrade to version 7 (unsupported, no more updates.... a big deal for such a critical security tool), and will have to downgrade everyone else too. If this does not get better, I will have to find another solution, which makes me very sad since I have been a 1Password advocate since it was first released.

(Irony of ironies, 1Password locked Chrome up so badly that the Recaptcha had expired by the time the registration was submitted to join this forum, so I had to start over and enter and save my information by hand, then store it later in 1Password. And this is because my original login, all stored in 1Password, was refused. I've never had that much trouble joining a website before... unbelievable!)