PSA: Conflict with “Email Address Encoder” plugin…

Hi guys.

I was about to come ask for help with a strange slow-down issue involving Ninja Forms, but I finally found the culprit: a seeming conflict with the Email Address Encoder plugin, which I’ve been using on all my WP sites for several years (helps cut down on spam bot emails when email addresses are published). My client’s very simple site was taking ~20 seconds to load until I turned that off, now it loads immediately. Creating this post partly for my own benefit in case it happens again and I forget the solution. ??