Logged spikes likely indicate user traffic triggers on the system. Again, we have no plans on implementing any fixes through any AI system that is not trained on the overall system with code that is completely untested.
You're welcome to make any changes to your own system however these changes would be unsupported untested 3rd party code and is not eligible for support.
The overall UBB.treads project is porting old code up to newer systems (PHP versions, MySQL updates, SMARTY and other foundational script updates, etc); as code is gone through during upgrades and rewrites queries are looked at to see if they can be cleaned further; the entire purpose of PHP8 is cleaner strict code otherwise errors pop up everywhere; this is all an ongoing process.
