I noticed latency and driver stability improve greatly with A4A. Before, the windows based DX driver (the only one available at all points of setting options despite having an ASIO capable AI) would just drop out and I'd have to restart my DAW to get my AI or any DAW audio for that matter, back online. The audio seems to be optimized for strictly one IO application or device at a time in order to streamline its performance. Switching it's IO from AI to PC is fairly straightforward in the A4A app.

I would say this is the reason MACs are recommended for audio, being that ASIO runs natively without having to fish around for 3rd party driver apps with the exceptions of being provided special drivers by manufacturer. DX is absolutely atrocious.

Windows stability with drivers in my experience has been troublesome in general lately. A windows update vanished half my applications/drivers and I had to reinstall them manually. I know MACs are not without problems themselves, but I im betting making the switch from windows system to an M1 system after the software catches up in about a year will be a worthwhile investment.