I would populate a Map with 15 items, and use that for the data-sly-list.Example on Map here: htl-examples/HashMapExample.java at master · heervisscher/htl-examples · GitHub
"any custom linked tables", to me also the standard linked tables aren't available.This functionality isn't available.Perhaps you can define a personalization block, and use that.
Missed your previous answer, my bad The option "debugClientLibs=true" is not compressing, but it writes out files one by one in the HTML source.And around the wait-time: this is a community forum with SLA