Ask HN: Is it just me or is every normal Wordpress blog slowish?

Asking myself if I should go the hugo route or Wordpress route for a new blog and multi authors. I've compared several amateur (with amateur I mean many semi pro blogs which are not hosted by a big company) Wordpress blogs and I have the feeling they all feel slowish. I don't know the real reason but it seems like a mixture of bad image management, too big HTML and maybe also Wordpress itself (I thought it is fast with PHP 7 nowadays).