The user experience is still a little jarring. The program feels "heavy" to use because of all the resource usage. I don't think it's necessarily bad, as long as it's stable.
It gives the program an air of mystery, like "what's it doing in there?".
I'm assuming that there is no way to cut down on resource usage? If it can be done, it should, because currently it represents a barrier to entry for users who are running their lives on the lean side so to speak. Bitshares should be inclusive to people of all economic standing in my opinion.
but, what is it doing with all that memory and cpu?