to put it simply, i just dont need nor want to see stuff from really far away, anything around or below 80 is just fine. that said, i would like to know if it would perform better if i actually did reduce the lod gen distance and tweaked the quality to be a bit higher. dh has a big memory cost that, a lot of the times, i dont feel like its worth dealing with due to my modpack being admitedly too heavy and having troublesome mods here and there; examples being sinytra connector for some performance mods that are (as the sinytra devs' claim) fully compatible, really heavy mods like alex's caves and many other entity related ones that will inevitably cause issues and more.
i do have mods like enhanced block entities to deal with create, i did a fair amount of reading and am avoiding c2me and overlapping performance mods so as to not to create issues by trying to add many sort of useless things and more, but i still don't know how to properly set up DH in a way that fits what i want/envision.
all that said, the questions i have are more like: would it demand less of my pc if i reduced the overall range of lod gen, or it would simply complete the generation faster because there's less for it to do? while playing, i noticed it would generate stuff at 40-120chunks per second, but then it'd slow down to 2-4. i dont really mind the speed because i can simply let it run for a long while, but i kinda want to have it do less and am looking for help setting it up. i could disable distant generation, but that's not really what i want/need, because my worldgen (only tectonic and one other biome mod) gets me some pretty big terrain.