I think I get what you’re saying. I also found this and read it and have a better understanding of what ur driving at I think from that complementing what you’ve taught me today:
If I’m understanding it all correctly then I think what I will do is continue to use .tscn for now, and if the save/load time gets problematic then I’ll switch then, and if not then I’ll wait so that version control remains manageable. Then when things are finalized down the production line, I can resave everything into the binary forms before the final compile so that loading times and such are minimal. I hear version control is important so I should probably prioritize keeping that as smooth as possible until I can’t avoid it any further.
But I want to thank you truly for all the help you gave. Even after saying you had helped as much as you could you still were working on it to find an idea and then you did, and on top of all that I learned something very useful long-term that I would never have otherwise known to teach myself. So, I really do appreciate it. I’m going to mark your message as the solution I think, and we can call it a day and get a glass of our choice of delicious beverage. 