This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.