My experience is that there are all sorts of accelerations and things that may or may not enable themselves, and no way to know these even exist without trawlin

My experience is that there are all sorts of accelerations and things that may or may not enable themselves, and no way to know these even exist without trawling through a bunch of forum threads. An "OBS performance audit/optimizer" would be an interesting add-on. Because, yeah, it can sometimes bring an otherwise-fast machine to its knees, seemingly inexplicably.