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Thank you for taking the time to write that out - those are all good reasons to go for a hard mod. I'm intrigued now, I will most likely pick up another 360 locally on the cheap to tinker with and go the easier route of A Bad Avatar with my "main system" until then. Dream Theme does look amazing and just having the console customized and ready to go right after booting (instead of having to run an exploit etc. every time) is a huge plus. It will be glorious.
No problem. I was concerned I went way overboard so I'm glad it's helpful. Just be aware that if you also use Freestyle Dash, basically anyone who's familiar with 360 modding will be like "...why are you using that?" It's over a decade out of support. Aurora is much lighter and up to date, but I'm old school and I'm nostalgic for Dream Theme. The good news is if you want, you can configure Dashlaunch to have both. You just hold some button you choose on the controller while booting and it will boot into FSD, Aurora, or straight into xexmenu if you want. Before I settled into a preference, I put both FSD and Aurora on all the consoles I modded.