Saves
For all of those being hindered by the longer delays with saves, the most common work around is to keep your save list small. As beneficial as saving all the time is, I wouldn't recommend having more than 10 saves. The fewer will obviously be the better, but who really needs 57 saves of random spots anyways.
A quick work around to deleting saves is to highlight Delete Save in the save menu with your cursor. Then just push the Down Arrow to select the previous save and click the aforementioned Delete Save button. By rapidly alternating between keys you can delete all but the most recent save quickly and continue playing without longer and longer delays when you do choose to save.
Their might be another way to manually delete all the files in the game folder, but I don't know where that is.
Hope this helps some of you out with the multi save problem!