This is what I do as well and then adjust the game either way. For instance on TZ I turned on the memory for the dead end, so a bit easier to get the EB for a risky shot to begin with. But with Whirlwind I had to make that a bit more difficult to keep it interesting for me. This made the GF very unhappy as this is her goto game so i turned the setting back to stock.

Software aside, I normally set the play-field drains on the smaller (easiest) openings as well. Does anyone else do this?