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> Emacs TRAMP was super slow to work with. With help of Claude, I figured out [...]

Out of curiosity, did it advise you to configure auto-save and backup such that they write their files under ~/.emacs.d, rather than in the same directory alongside the (with Tramp, potentially remote) file they're about? Especially with vanilla Emacs, that's always the first place you want to look when you see freezes doing file operations on a remote host over a slow or flaky link.

I believe I first added that change to my .emacs in 2010 or 2011, and as far as I can recall, it was the only change I ever needed to make to address Tramp being slow sometimes.