got it refactored and working, still plenty to split and organize

lua/kickstart/plugins/conform.lua

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+return { -- Autoformat
+  'stevearc/conform.nvim',
+  lazy = false,
+  keys = {
+    {
+      '<leader>f',
+      function()
+        require('conform').format { async = true, lsp_fallback = true }
+      end,
+      mode = '',
+      desc = '[F]ormat buffer',
+    },
+  },
+  opts = {
+    notify_on_error = false,
+    format_on_save = function(bufnr)
+      -- Disable "format_on_save lsp_fallback" for languages that don't
+      -- have a well standardized coding style. You can add additional
+      -- languages here or re-enable it for the disabled ones.
+      local disable_filetypes = { c = true, cpp = true }
+      return {
+        timeout_ms = 500,
+        lsp_fallback = not disable_filetypes[vim.bo[bufnr].filetype],
+      }
+    end,
+    formatters_by_ft = {
+      lua = { 'stylua' },
+      -- Conform can also run multiple formatters sequentially
+      -- python = { "isort", "black" },
+      --
+      -- You can use a sub-list to tell conform to run *until* a formatter
+      -- is found.
+      -- javascript = { { "prettierd", "prettier" } },
+    },
+  },
+}