How can I further optimize a derived table query which performs better than the JOINed equivalent?

Well, I found a solution. It took a lot of experimentation, and I think a good bit of blind luck, but here it is.

You should have used Postgres, lol. A simple query like this should not take more than some tens of seconds provided you have enough RAM to avoid disk thrashing.

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