I don't know what it would do to editor rendering performance, but disabling the `liga` OpenType flag for selections detected as strings would solve the majorit

I don't know what it would do to editor rendering performance, but disabling the `liga` OpenType flag for selections detected as strings would solve the majority of instances of #2 All in all though, this is a purely local dev preference matter - your editor ligature settings never affect the committed code, so neither are really a problem in practice.