Thanks for the starting point davidB.
<scala-maven-plugin-version>3.4.6</scala-maven-plugin-version> , changing that from 3.4.6 to 4.0.0 (or 4.2.0) causes the tremendous slowdown.
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${scala-maven-plugin-version}</version>
Removing the <recompileMode>incremental</recompileMode> makes no difference I can measure. Changing to "all" maybe ten percent. (Removing all of my predecessors' optimizations of JVM switches also makes no difference I can measure. )
Shrine is a big, sprawling project, but is at least open source so others can see the problem. I'll post the question ( as a bug? ) over on GitHub.
Thanks again,
David