Pages taking 30% CPU; iCloud sync problem?

[Telemakhos]

I see that people have posted about their feelings on Pages UI and the subscription update, but I don't see any mention of Pages (15.2.1) eating CPU cycles. My laptop was hot and sluggish after I'd left a Pages document open in the background, so I checked Activity Monitor, and Pages was eating 30-40% of CPU, while tccd is taking 50% and fileproviderd 40%. This sounds like a problem with iCloud sync: fileproviderd does file sync, and tccd handles permissions.
I closed Pages, and tccd and fileproviderd both dropped to nothing. I reopened pages, and things were fine for a while; I left it and came back after half an hour to see tccd at 50%, fileproviderd at 40% and pages at 30% CPU utilization. Is anyone else having similar issues with Pages? Would have been okay back in winter, but it's getting too warm to have my laptop acting as a portable heater.

 

[!!!]

This is not a new issue, I've had this on Pages 14 and macOS 15. I don't have a solution for you, sorry.

 

[polyphenol]

A few minutes ago, I closed Pages on my M4 Mac mini. It was showing 99% CPU - continuously. Only one document open. And that had not been updated for at least tens of minutes and was fully saved.

Afraid also no answer.

Memory usage is also an issue. Below - have just started Pages up again and have just one single file open. Not a one character has been typed in it. It grows to much, much more than this in use.

 

[Telemakhos]

I hope that the next version of macOS, pitched as a new Snow Leopard, addresses this kind of problem. This is "under the hood" and affects user experience. iCloud sync is a core experience, and Pages is a first-party program.