What are the alternatives to updating indicators using property nodes?

Question

Hello,
I'm building a VI which needs to update several controls/indicators at multiple points throughout its execution. It also needs to be able to accept new values from the controls at any given time.
The problem with this is that all of these controls and indicators are on the front panel of another VI which is calling my VI. The current version of my program updates all of these controls and indicators using references and property nodes (each indicator/control that needs to be used has its own reference control on my VI, and these references are then sent into property nodes), which naturally makes it slow.
At the moment I'm considering rebuilding my VI in such a way that the main one is able to retrieve the data without using references, but this will be not only very time-consuming but also difficult and possibly even impossible without my code turning into a massive disorganized pile (especially since the lab computer is slow enough, and the main VI large enough, that pressing the 'clean/reorganize block diagram' button causes a crash).
Any alternatives to this? Queues?
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