I’ll be interested to hear what you find.
I decided to go ahead and update the automation I wrote to change the local default dimming level on my Blue switches. I think this should address most of my concerns with Adaptive Lighting. I’d prefer to change the brightness without turning the light on, though. (I don’t really want to test the reliability of constant parameter writes to these over the years, but as others have pointed out, it’ll be hard to really exhaust the max writes.)
Current revision of adaptive-lighting-adjust-while-off.yaml: