It's possible that the firewall related plugins could cause latency if they're validating the Ezoic IPs, but that shouldn't be related to the Ezoic plugin necessarily.
Can we just take a step back here and re-establish what exactly we're looking to troubleshoot?
You last mentioned this: " very difficult to open the files in the backend. Files don't load."
What files exactly aren't loading in the back-end?