tech debt: address storybook failures and slow build speed

[Forfold]

Introduced in #3571, Storybook works well but only if you have a newer computer.

It would be nice if we could reduce the time to test make test-components, which is currently sitting around 1-2 minutes for me. Storybook also takes at least a minute to render the components for make storybook, once the browser automatically opens.

Also, the build output is super noisy both locally and in CI so it would be great to get that sorted out as well.

[Forfold]

It appears that Storybook also attempts to access too many files at once, and consistently fails after being open for just a few minutes.

[Forfold]

As is Storybook so far is a 👎 from me with how it runs on my machine..