Hi favority, I use the apfs.efi from 10.13.0 and have done the hack to get non verbose version with terminal.
This works in terminal:
sudo perl -i -pe 's|\x00\x74\x07\xb8\xff\xff|\x00\x90\x90\xb8\xff\xff|sg' /path/to/your/APFS.efi
All this you can find in this thread:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/how-to-update-current-and-past-apfs-efi-downloads.236103/page-1.
The version of apfs.efi in Clover EFI has no influence on the version of apfs that is used in the running macOS. In macOS a apfs driver is loaded from Extensions. The apfs.efi file is only used foor to be able to find bootx64.efi to start up macOS.
Sure, the Applesupport package makes booting more secure. But we also use HFS driver from Virtualbox for years. May be there is already a Virtualbox efi driver for apfs too?
Anyway, the version I have written works without delay in boot time. Enjoy your NVMe drive on apfs!