NicolasHeluani @work

So I am used to batch jobs by using hbatch in the terminal and then:

is there a way to stop the render and go back to the directory?
quit, abort, exit, nothing seems to work.

I am suprised that houdini has this awesome preflight tool that tells you where all files related to a scene are but it has no way to collect them into a different folder?

Midphase
You're talking about changing between Desktops? I just tested it on my aging 2012 Mac Book Pro which definitely isn't even remotely as fast as your machine and I didn't have any issues. All the Desktop Sets switch within 1 second.

The Viewport views (Perspective, Top, Bottom, etc) also switch really fast, but I suppose it depends on the complexity of your scene.

No, I am talking about changing views in the Scene view ( from top to right, etc), and the small delay, 1-2 second, happens even when there is nothing on the scene.
Your 2012 Mac Book Pro may have an nVidia card. I am wondering if it is a limitation in the radeon GPU horsepower.
Anyway I have submitted it as a bug as I think I am ill equipped to do the hardware compatibility test it will require to figure it out. I also have a far more annoying issue with unreliable TAB key to call the TAB menu (also submitted it as a bug).
I am a bit surprised that other people have not experienced this issue, considering that iMac-pros are line products.