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Subclassing pygame.sprite.Sprite is pretty standard, that's what you really should do, that's also what I do when writing examples and stuff. ECS is pretty cool yeah, I started a project once that used ECS and ECS has that nice scalability aspect, but unfortunately I didn't get far with that project, mostly because I lost interest, but I can suggest you esper, it's a very lightweight ECS library written in Python, it's pretty cool if you want to check that out (https://github.com/benmoran56/esper).
There two parts to sprite class. One is in cython and the there one in python. Would have to go through code to see which one their still using. Every test I have run. Sprite and Group will handle more images. With out frame rate dropping below 60.
Also the changes I made were rather simplistic and the below repo was for a game I made for a game jam, but basically I simply abstracted the rendering logic under a single function such that I could swap it out easily if necessary, the group and entity stuff is also very simple, but it was enough for what I was making anyways. Probably could have even used pygame.sprite and subclassed Group for this tiny change, but as I mentioned, I just feel a bit more comfortable with writing my own implementation of sprite systems in my own games. https://github.com/Matiiss/Eggster