> For example, my emacs config is a literate org file, which is important to me. It is large and complicated and I don’t feel like it’s a good fit for an “all my configs together” solution.

I have a literate config that works with home-manager.

The problem is the 800 noweb-ref blocks took 10+ seconds to tangle.

I reported it, and someone optimized tangling to 0.5 seconds. I'm still using the custom patches though since the changes haven't been released or maybe even merged yet.