I think this is true; any sort of plug-in besides the ones which disable stuff, are bad.
What are the most useful plug-ins, for WordPress or beyond? The ones that get rid of things or disable things.
For example, disable comments plug-in, or spam protection plug-ins. All of these other plug-ins which strive to “optimize“ things, often break your website.
For example, this one thing that I’ve been using for a while called Astra — I paid for it, the premium theme, perhaps $250 outright for a lifetime pro theme, but it has broken my website at least twice. Straight in the trash.
I think the reason why I am also now very very suspicious of that Astra team is that in order to “unlock“ the “pro features”, you must install this WordPress Astra pro plug-in thing; but aesthetically, I hate the addition.