The thing is - the hoard as it is now, takes up very little of my time. Shrinking it and keeping it from growing by throwing things out, recycling, donating, giving away, and putting things in their places, takes a lot of time. Cleaning around it is slower than cleaning without it, but the added cleaning time is less than the dehoarding time on a week by week basis. Perhaps there will be a tipping point for that (when the only dehoarding left is throwing away, recycling, and putting away of things used daily?).

it's like laundry - it is faster and less effort to simply wash all of your clothes in one load each week and then live out of the laundry basket than it is to sort them, launder them appropriately, and put them away neatly. But it isn't very civilized and you often look rumpled or stained. My son did this for 4 years - he had a laundry sorter with a "clean" bag and a "dirty" bag.