The scoping rules are by design and match .ipynb workflows in the case of multiple documents, so we're unlikely to change it.
The render latency of quarto is definitely higher than we'd love, but we have a plan and have been steadily improving it. Quarto 1.4 is generally about 20% faster than 1.3, and we have performance regression infrastructure to not let us slip on it.
The scoping rules are by design and match .ipynb workflows in the case of multiple documents, so we're unlikely to change it.
The render latency of quarto is definitely higher than we'd love, but we have a plan and have been steadily improving it. Quarto 1.4 is generally about 20% faster than 1.3, and we have performance regression infrastructure to not let us slip on it.