shouldve listened to myself. removing moderation (or rather, gating the entire labeler system behind a compile-time flag) massively helps. it unblocks me from doing other stuff i want to do, and is a morale boost not seeing the app stuck loading labels for 2 minutes
like i really want to add support for the gallery thingy, and like this latest state has a lot of fun features and UI improvements id like to see deployed too, but its all stuck inside the half-baked moderation update that i couldnt finish that i have to remove first