Hello!
I am finding that including word/character counts and progress bars in the outliner drastically slows item expansion and collapsing. This makes a lot of sense, since word counting is a slow process. Might it make sense to include the word/character counts in the scrivx file, possibly under the TextSettings tag (along with TextSelection and Target), updating them at the same time? Doing that calculation on the backend might speed up the outliner.
Thanks for all your work on this project. Scrivener has been a life-saver for me.