WIP: Hopefully final Variant iteration

[AdamGS]

Summary

Closes: #000

Testing

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will not alter performance

⚠️ Unknown Walltime execution environment detected

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✅ 1210 untouched benchmarks

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