Ok @rorymc928 after doing a fair amount of testing I'm a little confused and this will probably confuse you too. When I first installed your v2.0 tweak I was on rooted, stock ARA2. Before I installed I did get a total AnTuTu score of about 110,000. After installing your tweak it was about 160,000. I then restored the TWRP backup, with a full wipe, I took before installing your tweak. I restored, boot, system, and data. I assumed this would have brought me back to the condition before I installed your tweak. But at this point I was still getting AnTuTu scores of 160,000. So I odin'd ARA2, installed twrp, rooted, and then restored just the data partition from the nandriod. I still got scores around 160,00 which surprised me.
To try to replicate your scores, and what I think I had before all this, I took the PITA way and flashed firmware with odin, reset up the device, and let Google restore my apps. And this is what I got:
1 & 2 Stock ARA2, no root
3 Stock ARA2, rooted with ashyx's method
4 rorymc928 v2 zip