Hmm great writeup but I'm using a Gen 1 2i2 with a very simple driver from 2020 that doesn't have any of the features you mentioned haha. I believe I was fine using it for quite a while with the windows driver but then I started having issues with horrible latency in my DAW which is why I installed the Focusrite driver back in 2020 and that fixed my problem so now I'm a bit stuck between both fixes. I may give what you suggest a try anyway and see if my DAW struggles again, perhaps the windows driver has caught up in the past 6 years!