I have tried kmail, Geary, mailspring before I landed on betterbird. I’m not sure what you mean with slow, but it works without issues on my pc. It does a lot of stuff, but it’s a fork of Thunderbird, which you want to exclude based on the initial thread. There are not a lot of linux clients even worth trying. Good luck finding your jam.
Openwebui has a lot of functionality like custom plugins, filters, pipelines and whatnot.
What are you looking to enhance and what do you feel like you are missing there?