Ansible internally abstracts all its SSH bits into a 'connection plug-in', the initial goal is implementing another one of those. So with one or two extra lines

Ansible internally abstracts all its SSH bits into a 'connection plug-in', the initial goal is implementing another one of those. So with one or two extra lines in ansible.cfg you will get a much faster Ansible, with no other changes necessary. I've no desire to replace Ansible, I'm just sick of wasting hours waiting for it to finish