I still have it. I’m working with Gigabyte behind the scenes. A new maple ridge NVM update is available and is coming. And a new bios that enables kernel dma protection for maple ridge.
Hotplugging is working great in windows and Linux, but not macOS directly (hotplug in macOS only works for me after resume from s3 sleep).
But I don’t hotplug my thunderbolt devices in macOS, so while the Titan ridge hotplugging experience (as in your case with the ASRock) is preferable, it’s not that big a deal for me. The hotplug ssdt loaded for me from day one.
I’m using an OWC thunderbolt 4 dock, I love this thing. Hooked up to it I have a nvme (western digital sn750) in a thunderbolt nvme enclosure, as well as a caldigit 10gbps thunderbolt Ethernet adapter hooked up to my 10gbps switch, and a usb-c monitor. My other thunderbolt port on the motherboard has another thunderbolt dock with all sorts of stuff hooked up to it.
The main requirement for me is for my thunderbolt devices to continue to remain connected during s3 sleep, and resume from sleep. And they do, so no major issues with me.
I was also going to send back the vision d z590, I was irate at first, I expected hotplugging support out of the box, as with z490 Titan ridge and on a Mac. But I’ve calmed down. In my experience, it handles rocket lake better than z490… I got higher multicore scores, and better performance under load. Probably an extra 7-10 percent. But that could be because I was using a beta bios with rocket lake on z490, I haven’t tried the release f20 bios.
My system has been stable for weeks, so I’m good. The main reason why I didn’t get the asus hero 13 is because as far as I could tell, it doesn’t have a displayport input, unlike the vision d. So I wouldn’t have been able to tunnel my 6800XT’s video output to my usb-c monitor via thunderbolt. But I can on the vision d.