Site responses 18% slower after enabling Elementor Atomic Editor V4

Describe the Problem After enabling Atomic Editor on our local DDEV site, we observed slower responses across 40 existing pages without converting their content. We tested five anonymous requests per page after a warm-up, before and after activation: • Median TTFB increased from 1.109s to 1.311s, about 18%. - All 40 page medians increased. - Three of the largest slowdowns persisted on repeat testing. - All requests returned HTTP 200. A previous activation also coincided with a site crash, but this test did not reproduce it. Is additional frontend overhead expected simply from enabling V4? What diagnostics would help investigate? Propose a Solution I would expect performance to either be the same or faster. Additional Context Environment: Elementor 4.3.2, Elementor Pro 4.3.0, WordPress 7.1.2, PHP 8.3.32. Agreement • I confirm I have read and followed all the guidelines and instructions outlined in the Feature Request form. • I agree that my…