Glad to hear it is working for everyone, but I still find that once and a while the “feature” will turn itself back on, and I have to go in and toggle it off once more. Still looking for a fix for that.
Actually, just resolved this myself. In Jetpack, I disabled “enhance image performance”, and they all now load immediately. Apparently, Jetpack is using a definitions of “enhance” and “performance” with which I am unfamiliar ….