What are typical steps you take for unfluffing POBs for league starters to avoid bait builds?

This league I'm having harder time to decide trying to pick between multiple league starter options. I'm not a big fan of obvious meta like pconc or fissure of snaking (although still considering it), therefore looking at some less popular builds that may be bait builds.

What I'm doing right now is taking POBs for league starters, removing stuff that is not realistic for early league start and comparing DPS. The stuff that I do to POB:

1. Switch to "early game" tree, skills, gear preset - if they have it 2. Remove cluster jewels, unique jewels, timeless jewels - even if it's something that might be cheap, I don't have a habit for buying those before finishing atlas and farming currency for some time. 3. Replace awakened gems with regular variants 4. If main skill is transfigured - compare option with regular to see how DPS is different (in case if I don't want to run lab and gem is expensive early on) 5. Reduce gem lvls / quality to more realistic at league start 6. Turn off flasks 7. Remove / replace obvious expensive items 8. Check config for anything weird, remove if doesn't make sense

In general it helps not only see some DPS numbers that are more comparable to each other, but in process of removal to understand where most power comes from.

Is there any other typical steps that you do in while unfluffing POBs?