Dataview and large vaults?

I have a large vault, about 18000 files and 500 folders—no idea how that came about—and am a heavy user of dataview.

The problem I'm having is that, when I click on a link, it sometimes takes minutes before it opens the note. Sometimes it doesn't even open at all and then I have to wait until Obsidian restarts itself.

Linking is the main reason I use Obsidian. However, I am afraid to click on links because of this stalling.

So I wonder if it's a dataview issue with large vaults.

Is there anyone who uses a large vault with dataview and doesn't have this problem?