pem worked fine for me right off the bat.
dobule tap to wake the screen toggle doesnt seem to work (stays on regardless). still, wont matter if battery usage is good enough - we will see how that goes.
some severe audio crackling as noted earler, but thankfully mpdecision off via kernel adiutor got that sorted out real quick. kinda wish same could be done to my los 14.1 grouper (no cpu hotplug menu on that guy).
I am new to RR and found there are a ton of UI customization options; most of them are irrelevant to me but still. I am hoping the included wakelock killer would complement pem's rtc killer (or maybe redundant?). for one, i saw some gms related entries in the former and disabled them for a good measure.
everything worked out ok so far except granting root to gmd auto hide soft keys. I ended up getting another paid alternate from gmd, only to learn there is a workaround. either way, thep problem isnt with the rom, it has to do with compatibility between AHSK and magisk. I will apply the work around later today and try to report back.