It's admittedly hard to follow the writing style, but it's mentioned many times that these are read only queries. I agree it's a little misleading, but at the

It's admittedly hard to follow the writing style, but it's mentioned many times that these are read only queries. I agree it's a little misleading, but at the same time if you're really in a readonly DW type environment you'd be crazy not to have all of the settings enabled to push throughput to the max.