The “block editor” in WordPress leaves a lot to be desired, IMO. The WordPress people are also pushing the concept into layout, which me and a lot of other folks aren’t happy about. There’s a project out there called ClassicPress that is a fork of the last WordPress code that did NOT contain the block editor. I definitely noticed that it responds faster to hits than the current getting-bloated WordPress.
Anyway, I switched this site to ClassicPress to see how it goes. So far the only problem I’ve hit is that it doesn’t seem to acknowledge the static home page setting. It goes straight to the blog roll page always. I suspect a couple possibilities that I could maybe work around.