@zygot Yes, you described my experience so far; finding basic information has proved time consuming and confusing (I had thought that was just because I was new to this stuff and didn't know where to look).
However, Once I had a grasp on Vivado and Vitis I could turn out experiments fairly quickly on the board itself. Plus the support from this forum has been absolutely great! I believe once you know where to look, you can find the information you need, but otherwise it is hidden behind very technical documentation.
As far as performance, the board is very quick, at least with regard to the FPGA and Zmod Scope/AWG. We are doing Real Time Analysis/Digital Signal Processing and it holds up great, at least within the audio frequency range (20-20kHZ).
I will take a look at that tutorial as that is essentially all we need from the PS, thanks so much!