I'm not sure why this is your experience, but the site I am referencing does exactly that. The images are even being pulled from an external domain. They are no

I'm not sure why this is your experience, but the site I am referencing does exactly that. The images are even being pulled from an external domain. They are not PNGs but I am not sure if that makes a difference (they are 100 quality .webp), they get optimized to a lower quality and have srcset, no vercel involved because I do not want a dependency on Vercel.