Use Factory Pattern for public API

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Extending features will explode parameters for many/most functions.

Describe the solution you'd like

Factory pattern: Work on a factory object to hold all settings and configuration variables. This keeps function signatures at more constant length over time.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Insanely long function signatures are needed for all parent functions when adding a new parameter to a low-level function.