Font awesome fonts account for more than half the loaded resources for XF. This is really crazy
<link rel="preload" href="/styles/fonts/fa/fa-light-300.woff2?_v=" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous" />
That is taken from chrome 83 dev tools network tabI'm not sure if there's a particular tool you're running to get those downloads, but it's likely not how an actual browser loads them, though there may be browser differences.
So that should only be 2 requests (note that the woff versions aren't loaded by recent browsers). The first one doesn't have the correct version key:
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