How to make EvoTrees.jl more performant?

No, I think you misunderstood my point. Any command you type after pkg> is run in the environment pkg, and therefore will not affect the Pluto notebook, which generates its own environment. E.g. if you did

pkg> add DataFrames@1.0

in the REPL, then

julia> using Pluto; Pluto.run()

and then put

using DataFrames

at the top of your notebook, Pluto will automatically install the latest DataFrames version (1.2) in your notebook environment, and you will be using that version in the notebook, not the version in your pkg environment from which you started Pluto.