diff --git a/packages/nx/src/command-line/show/projects.spec.ts b/packages/nx/src/command-line/show/projects.spec.ts
index 137e47a8ab6eb..b62d0d22e55e7 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/command-line/show/projects.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/command-line/show/projects.spec.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ jest.mock('../../project-graph/project-graph', () => ({
     .mockImplementation(() => Promise.resolve(graph)),
 }));
 
+performance.mark = jest.fn();
+performance.measure = jest.fn();
+
 describe('show projects', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     jest.spyOn(console, 'log').mockImplementation(() => {});
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/daemon/server/project-graph-incremental-recomputation.ts b/packages/nx/src/daemon/server/project-graph-incremental-recomputation.ts
index 8e8bfe71f4080..81f4830135ff7 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/daemon/server/project-graph-incremental-recomputation.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/daemon/server/project-graph-incremental-recomputation.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import {
   ProjectConfigurationsError,
   isAggregateProjectGraphError,
 } from '../../project-graph/error-types';
-import { getPlugins } from '../../project-graph/plugins';
+import { getPlugins } from '../../project-graph/plugins/get-plugins';
 
 interface SerializedProjectGraph {
   error: Error | null;
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/daemon/server/shutdown-utils.ts b/packages/nx/src/daemon/server/shutdown-utils.ts
index 672eec3154e44..d49e74be69875 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/daemon/server/shutdown-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/daemon/server/shutdown-utils.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
   ProjectGraphError,
 } from '../../project-graph/error-types';
 import { removeDbConnections } from '../../utils/db-connection';
-import { cleanupPlugins } from '../../project-graph/plugins';
+import { cleanupPlugins } from '../../project-graph/plugins/get-plugins';
 
 export const SERVER_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT_MS = 10800000 as const; // 10800000 ms = 3 hours
 
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/executors/utils/convert-nx-executor.ts b/packages/nx/src/executors/utils/convert-nx-executor.ts
index dae1dcdcb945d..961dad287762a 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/executors/utils/convert-nx-executor.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/executors/utils/convert-nx-executor.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { Executor, ExecutorContext } from '../../config/misc-interfaces';
 import { retrieveProjectConfigurations } from '../../project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files';
 import { readProjectConfigurationsFromRootMap } from '../../project-graph/utils/project-configuration-utils';
 import { ProjectsConfigurations } from '../../config/workspace-json-project-json';
-import { getPlugins } from '../../project-graph/plugins';
+import { getPlugins } from '../../project-graph/plugins/get-plugins';
 
 /**
  * Convert an Nx Executor into an Angular Devkit Builder
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/affected/locators/project-glob-changes.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/affected/locators/project-glob-changes.ts
index d9aad5c09f5ac..aa1ab25d98a87 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/affected/locators/project-glob-changes.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/affected/locators/project-glob-changes.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { join } from 'path';
 import { existsSync } from 'fs';
 import { configurationGlobs } from '../../utils/retrieve-workspace-files';
 import { combineGlobPatterns } from '../../../utils/globs';
-import { getPlugins } from '../../plugins';
+import { getPlugins } from '../../plugins/get-plugins';
 
 export const getTouchedProjectsFromProjectGlobChanges: TouchedProjectLocator =
   async (touchedFiles, projectGraphNodes): Promise<string[]> => {
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/error-types.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/error-types.ts
index dda621c383828..1f61deb951d4b 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/error-types.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/error-types.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
 } from './utils/project-configuration-utils';
 import { ProjectConfiguration } from '../config/workspace-json-project-json';
 import { ProjectGraph } from '../config/project-graph';
-import { CreateNodesFunctionV2 } from './plugins';
+import { CreateNodesFunctionV2 } from './plugins/public-api';
 
 export class ProjectGraphError extends Error {
   readonly #errors: Array<
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/get-plugins.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/get-plugins.ts
index 6fe5ee4c49d75..83489795852a3 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/get-plugins.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/get-plugins.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 import { hashObject } from '../../hasher/file-hasher';
 import { readNxJson } from '../../config/nx-json';
-import {
-  LoadedNxPlugin,
-  loadNxPlugins,
-} from '../../project-graph/plugins/internal-api';
+import { LoadedNxPlugin, loadNxPlugins } from './internal-api';
 import { workspaceRoot } from '../../utils/workspace-root';
 
 let currentPluginsConfigurationHash: string;
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/index.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/index.ts
index 22bc01cab479f..3bd38dd1dc22b 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/index.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 export * from './public-api';
 
-export * from './get-plugins';
+// export * from './get-plugins';
 
 export { readPluginPackageJson, registerPluginTSTranspiler } from './loader';
 export { createNodesFromFiles } from './utils';
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/isolation/plugin-worker.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/isolation/plugin-worker.ts
index 97beb6610d37b..5bc4477a3bfb0 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/isolation/plugin-worker.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/plugins/isolation/plugin-worker.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { consumeMessage, isPluginWorkerMessage } from './messaging';
-import type { LoadedNxPlugin } from '../internal-api';
 import { createSerializableError } from '../../../utils/serializable-error';
 import { consumeMessagesFromSocket } from '../../../utils/consume-messages-from-socket';
 
@@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ if (process.env.NX_PERF_LOGGING === 'true') {
 global.NX_GRAPH_CREATION = true;
 global.NX_PLUGIN_WORKER = true;
 let connected = false;
-let plugin: LoadedNxPlugin;
+let plugin;
 
 const socketPath = process.argv[2];
 
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/project-graph.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/project-graph.ts
index fe06dbd45cb29..30f2a1912db0c 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/project-graph.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/project-graph.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import {
   retrieveProjectConfigurations,
   retrieveWorkspaceFiles,
 } from './utils/retrieve-workspace-files';
-import { getPlugins } from './plugins';
+import { getPlugins } from './plugins/get-plugins';
 
 /**
  * Synchronously reads the latest cached copy of the workspace's ProjectGraph.
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/project-configuration-utils.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/project-configuration-utils.ts
index 56cbb493eea4f..911199881bfe2 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/project-configuration-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/project-configuration-utils.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import {
   isAggregateCreateNodesError,
   AggregateCreateNodesError,
 } from '../error-types';
-import { CreateNodesResult } from '../plugins';
+import { CreateNodesResult } from '../plugins/public-api';
 import { isGlobPattern } from '../../utils/globs';
 
 export type SourceInformation = [file: string | null, plugin: string];
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files.ts
index d5882f985895a..31f76b59ac7c9 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import {
 } from '../../utils/workspace-context';
 import { buildAllWorkspaceFiles } from './build-all-workspace-files';
 import { join } from 'path';
-import { getOnlyDefaultPlugins, getPlugins } from '../plugins';
+import { getOnlyDefaultPlugins, getPlugins } from '../plugins/get-plugins';
 
 /**
  * Walks the workspace directory to create the `projectFileMap`, `ProjectConfigurations` and `allWorkspaceFiles`