The speed of light is a hard limit on improving the performance of onion sites. Having your requests routed through six (edit: random) servers is always going to be slow.
Your traffic is certainly going over more than six links to get to you today, the only difference is clearnet traffic direction is organized for efficiency. TOR has inefficiency baked into the design for the purpose of privacy.
Yes, and it would be better if this sort of inefficiency isn’t directly incentivized by legislation.