AFAIK, the WiFi isn't all that intensive, but requires special considerations. With the ESP8266, you had to be careful to call yield() every few seconds, or th

AFAIK, the WiFi isn't all that intensive, but requires special considerations. With the ESP8266, you had to be careful to call yield() every few seconds, or the WiFi would hang. So it made it harder to write processor intensive tasks. The dual core of the ESP32 did away with that.