since when? :)

A few things have been added that may help: 1. only visible data is queried and loaded 2. If you have multiple panels that use the same data, you can now just reuse the results (or a subset of the results) in a new panel. This will cut down on additional queries that may not be necessary

i see you still have plans to continue with uPlot testing :)

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/21835

absolutely -- with everything else for 7.0 that did not make the cut. But would love to work more with your frankly amazing library :)