IMO, this is what the conjugate method is. It isn’t a strict program to follow, it is merely a set of principles.
You don’t need to do 100 variations if that doesn’t work for you. You can stick with 4-5 that you know build your main lifts/hit your weaknesses and rotate through them every month or two.
I’m still new to conjugate training (week 15), and am learning what type of intensity I’m able to recover from. I’m still guilty of taking my ME work to a RPE9.5-10 too regularly, which has forced a deload or two along the way. So I definitely see where capping it at RPE8-9 would work well.
I can see working up to an ME set of doubles or triples being of value, but I’m not sure a 7 rep max effort set would provide the right stimulus I’m going for on this day. I’m doing speed work on my DE day where I’m often benching in 3 clusters of triples (9reps) and typically hitting failure on the last set, but I wouldn’t use this type of work on ME day.
I’ve kind of derailed this thread. But I’m interested to hear more comments/experiences of yours (or others) for using the conjugate method, as I think I’m going to be running it long term. Feel free to bring this discussion over to my training log to keep from bumping this thread on peaking.