I agree. I never found zsh inherently slow, but the reason I initially used it was to play with all the additional 'bloat' its ecosystem offered, so to speak.
It was that experience which led me to look try other shells, in the end I found ksh's simpler feature set and manpage more to my liking.
It was that experience which led me to look try other shells, in the end I found ksh's simpler feature set and manpage more to my liking.