Apologies, I forgot this PR was still open.  This branch is used for performance testing in CI, and removing this build step saves about 10 minutes per run, important during dev time.  As noted in the commit logs, this will not be merged.  My plan is to not even merge these commits and delete this branch ones the applicable files are moved over (which only includes the test file changes).  

Closing this PR now, but feel free to continue commenting.