Update: Apple released the Ventura OS 13.2 after testing the past few weeks. I’m happy to report the SD card delete, empty trash, and upload issues are resolved now.
Total time to Empty Trash 53 seconds. Total time to Format SD with SD Formatter (including no longer a need to unplug the SD and plug it back in because when it was getting unmounted an error would occur) 1.57 seconds, total time to upload the same amount of fonts I usually do 2 minutes 11.68 seconds.
Just bear in mind you’ll still need Rosetta as well as the command line tools but this is good progress. The times I am seeing are now faster than before with OS Monterey or OS Big Sur.