I am a total beginner and am learning and experimenting a lot, but I find myself always gravitating back to the James Hoffmann method too, in my case almost exactly the original method.
One thing that I am playing around with right now is using the Flow Control cap instead of placing the plunger on top after adding water. That's mostly just to simplify the prep a bit while also making it a bit more consistent. I probably don't want to do inverted for now :)