I am the owner of the realm.

I personally have no lag issues on realms HOWEVER my friends have horrible lag. They're all running systems that are better or on par with my own. The lag makes combat in survival unplayable, causes some building issues with block lag and rubber-banding often makes movement unenjoyable, especially with the elytra.

My players all will only be running Minecraft and discord at once, neither of which should be particularly taxing. They're running at the lowest graphics settings and I've done all I can think of to make the realm as gentle as possible on their systems but everyone save for myself is experiencing it.

I've seen many lag-related posts on here but none seemed to show a difference between realm owner and the players so that would be why. But I'm super not happy paying $8 if my friends can't have fun on my realm.