It didn't lag when I loaded and tested just now to grab the version of Chrome: 122.0.6261.129. Presumably, that's because I'd visited earlier. I don't want to reset Chrome to try to repro again.
I did load up Chromium to check it and got the lag there as well: 124.0.6359.0 (Developer Build)
I don't use Chrome almost ever. Maybe my outdated version is why you can't repro.
This has been tricky to reproduce.