I found some tools to help my layered solutions compile either using NuGet or Project dependency references, depending on your development cycle (new feature cross cutting many projects? Project references. A limited change in a single layer? NuGet references).

.NET Framework Full: https://github.com/rsuter/NuGetReferenceSwitcher

.NET Core 2.1+: https://github.com/RSuter/DNT

Project Dependency Browser for .NET: https://github.com/rsuter/ProjectDependencyBrowser