Try enabling both Critical flying texts only and Consolidate flying texts. If you are still having performance issues, disable Flying texts.
That tracks! For most code in the game, I have reduced a lot of instantiation of nodes, which is creating new nodes. The bar animations have yet to be converted. I was going to implement a better, tween-based animation strategy instead of creating new nodes out of the suspicion that it is bad on performance. I'll bump that up my priority list and reply when it's uploaded