Any hints for making

PANTS_CONCURRENT=True time pants help

a little quicker (in general I'm using pants to run something, just using help as an example), I need the concurrent because I frequently have multiple processes started by pants running at the same time

Could you write small wrappers (outside Pants) to package and then run the result? We do this a lot with great success.

maybe in some cases, but I'd like to see if there's any low hanging fruit to make all targets faster first

I'm not aware of any; unfortunately. There are a few GitHub issues about parallel run, maybe worth digging through it a bit.

PANTS_CONCURRENT=True

I think turns off pantsd?

The tickets for FWIW: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/7654 https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/14913