I tried masking many of the TTY services and devices and that seemed helped a little.
I picked up the command…
journalctl -b -p err
and found that SDDM was stalling because it couldn’t find my wallpaper, once I changed it to a stock item, that it seemed to be back to the <5second load I knew it was capable of.
I did install the full KDE desktop before I noticed it was working fine again, so it may have been that, but I think it was the wallpaper not loading.
I plan to hunt down the source of the many remaining TTY items and either mask them or change their config to run less.
I already did the obvious .config to no avail.
I think i need to compile/recompile the kernel though, something that I would have to learn, so perhaps not right now.