Remove unused/unnecessary features
~~The bulk of the actual code changes here is replacing try blocks with equivalent closures. I'm not entirely sure that's a good idea since it may have perf impact, happy to revert if that's the case/the change is unwanted.~~
I also removed a lot of `recursion_limit = "256"` since everything seems to build fine without that and most don't have any comment justifying it.
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