Apologies for the inconvenience. This behavior is expected — when the SCSS compiler is enabled, the framework recompiles SCSS files into CSS on every page load, which can slightly slow down site performance and cause minor stuttering.

As mentioned in the Helix Ultimate documentation, this option should be turned off in production mode to ensure optimal performance. You can find the official recommendation here: 🔗 Helix Ultimate Documentation – SCSS Compiler

We appreciate your understanding and testing efforts.

But it's a bit of a general problem. Sometimes the logic is exactly the opposite.

With Helix Ultimate, you have to leave the option out for production mode. In SP Page Builder, you have to activate the option for production mode.

In SP Page Builder itself, you have to activate "Disable Google Fonts" to deactivate it. You have to deactivate "Load Font Awesome" to deactivate it.

This has probably developed over time, but it's still often very unfortunate.

You’re absolutely right — and thank you for pointing that out.

The options such as “Disable Google Fonts” or “Load Font Awesome” are not primarily related to performance. These settings are provided to give users control over whether they want to use these external resources at all. Some users may choose to disable them due to design preferences, privacy regulations, or regional data protection laws that restrict loading assets from external sources like Google.

As for other settings like the SCSS compiler, those are indeed performance-related — meant to be enabled only during development and disabled in production.

When developing products for a broad audience, we need to include such flexible options since different users, regions, and projects have varying requirements. Your feedback on the clarity of these options is very valuable, and we’ll take it into consideration to make the experience more consistent and intuitive in future updates.