Has ESRI contacted anybody on this thread regarding their slow editing experience? I hate to begin any ESRI bashing here, but the "slow editing" has been around since 9.3.1. Previously, I thought it was due to editing features within shapefiles on a file system, but now I'm editing features that are stored in our SDE instance and the editing experience is still dreadfully slow. So slow, in fact, that my snapping tool doesn't even work. The only way to get around it, that I found thus far, is to open a new session and only drag in the layers that require editing, as well as a reference layer.
Pretty pathetic considering that this performance problem has been around for a while.
And no, it's not my network or server that is the problem.