I use mine for AI related tasks so the 1-3% perf drop can make a difference

Yeah... happy to see they've simplified it, but I would think the most people who cared (enough to even know there will be a setting there) would have found a workaround years ago.

While I agree on X870E you do lose lanes to the GPU, it's pretty negligible in "Real World" usage. There is little difference when I run RTX 5090 with 8x vs 16x.... (1% difference) My motherboard automatically drops PCIE 5.0 to 8x when you populate certain M.2 slots as well. Not the ideal situation, but again, performance impact is too slight to really matter.

UAD-NG is great for uninstalling (More like disabling but it allows you to select system apk's that you are unable to disable via the apps menu on your phone). Rethink apk is also great for creating firewall rules and using an encrypted DNS.