This is not necessarily anything to do with Proton / Wine.
It's some back-end changes they made in the 1.9 update of the game. Downgrading to 1.8 basically makes things go back to expected performance.
I've written Warhorse and they said they will fix it in an upcoming patch.

Thanks so much for taking your time to take a look at it and for your quick reply.
Have a good day!
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I confirm:
This game used to work great but now it's nearly unplayable. Less than 50% fps i used to have. Doesn't happen with any other game i have tried. Please check that this is a common issue here:
https://www.protondb.com/app/379430
Glorius eggroll version fixes it, but i believe this should be included in the official proton build
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases