Coming from a trials background quick engagement can* be important and offer genuine benefits, but for XC and general trail riding it’s pretty much a non-issue.
I went for years being massively picky about it because of trials riding, and it is occasionally nicer to have a quicker engaging hub on techy ‘ratchety’ bits of normal trails but basically at this point in my life racing XC, riding in the woods and on moors, its a feel thing not an actual performance thing, it will not make you quicker or improve your race times. I still prefer the feel of quicker pickup, but it’s just that, a preference for feel, I’m under no illusion that it will have any measurable benefit.
As someone above said too, once you’re up to ~40+ POE its ‘enough’ to feel good anyway, and some (not clutch based hubs) of the quicker engaging hubs are less durable anyway due to smaller ratchet teeth and more prone to occasional mis-engagements.
Basically “don’t worry about it”, which should probably be an auto response to a lot of your threads Kryton 😉
*genuinely important, like the difference between cleaning a section and not.