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Thank you very much @codepeople, that solved it!

I needed a lossy compression tools. EWWW does lossless in the free version. ShortPixel limits one to 100 credit for the free plan which can kinna worked, but I can’t be for sure coz I couldn’t optimize everything. If you can recommend a plugin that does Lossy for free it would be great. Thanks a lot.

I’m not sure what you mean by the images being “twice as what they should theoretically be”. you can have a photography site serving 6000x4000px images and get a high score on PageSpeed as long as they are compressed. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that the resolution is not the issue, its compression is what affects the score.
I’m satisfied with the speed of my site, but I must take PageSpeed Insights into consideration because of their effect on search engine rankings. I’m getting 52/100 and 74/100 scores for mobile and desktop, respectively. Disabling the WP Retina 2x bumps my score to 95 and 96! As you can see the difference is huge. Just to be clear, I know the problem is not in the plugin. I’m trying to figure out how to convince google that my 2x images are compressed.

I see what you mean. Thx for the explanation!

Excuse the dump question, but how is this different than the current process? I have Woocommerce set up to have thumbnails, Catalog, and Single product at 125, 250 and 500, respectively. all the product images I upload are 1000×1000 and your plugin is generating the 2x version of those, so what would be different in the current suggestion?