Find the right effort level
Don't guess. Run your real tasks at three levels and look.
I'm going to run the same three tasks at low, medium and high effort. Here are the tasks: <paste three real tasks from your project> For each run, I'll paste the output and how long it took. Help me compare: was the result actually different? Where did the extra effort change the outcome, and where did it just add time? Then recommend a default for routine work and a level for hard problems, specific to this project.
Level names don't mean the same thing across models. If you tuned effort on Opus, re-tune it. Low on Fable 5.1 is often better than you expect.