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I feel like there's a version of this that has a slider for how aggressively you're willing to sacrifice readability, and you could probably get pretty decent results on the scale of 2x to 2.5x just using different encodings of the same basic glyph.
I tested this with the Navy Seal Copypasta (well, the first 400 letters of it, the demo's got a limit) - using just Cryllic characters got me a 3.01x increase, and turning on all four control types got a 4.53x increase.
Testing your own recent comment, Cryllic only got 3.38x, and all four controls got 5.11x.
Going from those two, the boost from homoglyphs alone is likely higher than you think - 3x to 3.5x, by my guess - pretty good for human readable text.
Tarpits like Iocaine and Nepenthes can easily sacrifice readability for token burn, so they can easily go higher.