Create a separate user account specifically for programming or no?

I was wondering if creating a user account specifically for programming / dev type activities would be useful or not. While I am working on my main rig to get it back up and running, my laptop has become my main machine for a little bit. I've been using it mainly for surfing and gaming and it has kept up fairly well, although I think it could be doing much better if I were able to clear a lot of the clutter. The majority of that clutter as I see it is due to all of the services and dependencies that get installed for VS and what not.

Using a second user account might make a difference. Keep in mind, all those services and startup apps you speak of would probably be running on the new user as well if the apps installed for all users as most do. Before going that route why not make your current account as lean and mean as possible. Open task manager, click startup apps (4th icon down) and disable anything that is not necessary. Restart.

Also use task manger to find what is hogging your computer's resources.

Have you considered your laptop may have some sort of file corruption that is slowing it down. Here are things to try for that.
Make sure you have no corrupt system files that is causing this problem. Open a command prompt as administrator and type sfc /scannow
Pay attention to the scan results to see if SFC found anything it could not repair. If it found corruption it could not fix followup with this command (note the spaces)
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
Restart computer

(Note-you can follow up with another sfc /scannow command to make sure that dism repaired the files)

CLEAN BOOT

Perform a clean boot to eliminate software conflict causing the issue. If it doesn't happen in a clean boot, you have some software conflicting with Windows. Brink's procedure will help you weed out which one. Perform a Clean Boot in Windows 11 to Troubleshoot Software Conflicts Tutorial